John Freely

how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world

Aladdin's lamp

Brendan Freely

A Biography

Galata, Pera, Beyoğlu

Aladdin's Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, most notably Avicenna, Alhazen, and Averroës, adding their own interpretations to the philosophy and science they had inherited. Freely goes on to show how, beginning in the twelfth century, these texts by Islamic scholars were then translated from Arabic into Latin, sparking the emergence of modern science at the dawn of the Renaissance, which climaxed in the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

Aladdin's Lamp

Hilary Sumner-Boyd

Yelda Türedi

İstanbul gezgininin rehberi

İstanbul'u dolaşırken

Colorful, cosmopolitan, hard-drinking, often outrageous characters throng this rollicking memoir by the late John Freely, who moved with his family to Istanbul in 1960 and changed travel writing for good with his 1972 guide, Strolling Through Istanbul. Dozens of books on travel, history and science would follow.

A Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul

Stamboul Ghosts

Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, which sparked the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the discoveries for which Galileo and Newton are credited. In Before Galileo, John Freely investigates the first European scientists, many of them monks, whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of their monasteries. He shows how science and religion coexisted, and places the great discoveries of the age in their rightful context.

The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

Before Galileo

The Emergence of Modern Science, East and West

Robert College, Boğaziçi University : how an American college in Istanbul became a Turkish university

A bridge of culture

مصباح علاء الدين - كيف وصلت العلوم الاغريقية إلى أوروبا عبر العالم الإسلامي

Isik Dogu'dan Yukselir

Türkiye'nin Bati Kiyilari Ege ve Akdeniz Kiyilarinda Yolculuk

Buyuk Turk - Iki Denizin Hakimi Fatih Sultan Mehmed

bir hanedanlığın öyküsü

Osmanlı sarayı

Long acknowledged to be the "best travel guide to Istanbul" ("Times" of London) this classic work shows Istanbul the way it is seen at its best -on foot. An informative guide and ideal companion, it describes major monuments in detail with reference to history and architecture. Although the main emphasis of the book is on Byzantine and Ottoman antiquities, Istanbul is not treated as a museum but as a living city, full of delights. Detailed walking itineraries are provided.

A Guide to the City

Strolling Through Istanbul

Tells the story of Istanbul from its founding to the present day, with an emphasis on daily life in the city throughout the centuries

The Imperial City

Istanbul

Turkey Around the Marmara

Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the first Hellenic enlightenment, giving birth to Homer, Herodotus and the first philosophers of nature. For more three millennia the Anatolian Greeks preserved their identity and culture as the tides of history washed over them, enduring conflicts that historians since Herodotus have seen as an unending clash of civilizations between East and West. Today, the memory of the Greek diaspora from Asia Minor lives on in the music of rebetika, the threnodies known as amanadas, and the poetry of Seferis, and even now the descendants of those exiles speak with nostalgia of 'i kath'imas Anatoli' - our own Anatolia, their lost homeland. This, told for the first time, is their story, from glorious beginnings to a bitter end, a story that continues to echo through the ages and across continents.

The Greeks in Asia Minor since the Days of Troy

Children of Achilles

"Este libro -nos dice John Freely- quiere ser una guía por la Ilíada y la Odisea de Homero, que llevará al viajero desde Troya a lo largo de las costas del Egeo turco, y de allí hacia las playas del Mediterráneo, siguiendo las huellas de Odiseo cuando regresaba de la guerra de Troya y, después de muchas aventuras, volvió a su hogar y a su familia en Ítaca". Freely, que ha vivido muchos años en Grecia y en Turquía, y que tiene un buen conocimiento de los hallazgos recientes de la arqueología, no pretende ofrecernos una mera guía de viaje por los escenarios homéricos, sino que nos lleva a ellos con la Ilíada y la Odisea en la mano, en un recorrido en que el objetivo no es el paisaje, sino el mundo de Homero, con la intención de introducirnos en un universo de deslumbrante belleza, que sigue emocionando a los lectores de hoy, a los tres mil años de su composición.

una guía de viaje por la Ilíada y la Odisea

El mundo de Homero

Pico Iyer

Jan Morris

John Julius Norwich

Bruce Boucher

Hakan Groth

An illustrated historical tour of twelve of the world's greatest residences.

Great Residences of the World

Living in a Dream

The American College for Girls, and Boğaziçi University (Bosphorus University)

A History of Robert College

John Freely

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