𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘦 —𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦?

𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘:

Published in 2016, ‘𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲’ is a thunderclap of a book —one that shatters the myth of a purely Greco-Roman rebirth and exposes a deliberate historical erasure.

We are taught that the Renaissance was the rediscovery of classical Europe. But behind the curtain, a different truth pulsed: European thinkers were deeply indebted to centuries of Arabic philosophy, science, medicine, and metaphysics. During this so-called “revival,” Arabic texts were being translated, published, and quoted with fervor —yet at the very same time, a fierce campaign was underway to bury the Arab roots of European genius.

This book uncovers how a powerful alliance of humanist purists and ideological reformers waged war against Arabic knowledge, branding it impure, heretical, or derivative. Arabic science was not gently forgotten —it was suppressed. And yet, the influence endured: in Renaissance universities, in medical manuals, in the logic of philosophers who publicly denied what they privately studied.

With laser precision, this is a story of transmission and betrayal, brilliance and backlash. It doesn’t just retell the history of Renaissance thought —it exposes the fault lines of intellectual theft, cultural denial, and the fragile pride of a Europe desperate to rewrite its ancestry.

𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 & 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖:

• Amazon Kindle:

https://read.amazon.com/sample/B01N1SMBM0?f=2&l=en_US&r=e5876eb7&rid=5JD5B63M8B3E1BS0KB6Y&sid=143-5878592-3903501&cid=A2K6SQ0CF3IW38&ref_=litb_m

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖:

• History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (Peter Adamson Podcast):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GM5gJVxnb0I&pp=ygUSRGFnIE5pa29sYXVzIEhhc3Nl

𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 & 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄:

• Harvard University Press:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674971585