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Three Wise Men

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Martin Wainwright looks at three great scholars from the mediaeval Islamic world, who revived and developed Greek learning at a time when it was lost in the West. 1: The Marvellous Boy. Avicenna was a Persian doctor and philosopher from Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan. The originiality and brilliance of his scholarship amazed the Islamic world and influenced Christian Europe for seven centuries. Producer Sue Waldram

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Martin Wainwright
Producer:
Sue Waldram

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