The Golden Age and Decline of Islamic Civilisation, Volume 1

This is volume one of the re-edited Golden Age and Decline of Islamic Civilisation by the same author. The new edition is much larger than the first, and has been split into 3 volumes. The first volume presents an overview of Islamic civilisation with the focus on industry, trade, the urban system, gardens, learning, and libraries. Throughout, the work contrasts the reality and brilliance of medieval Islamic civilisation with the manner scholarship has, as a rule, misrepresented it.