Between Spirit and Soul
The Forgotten Genius Who Carried Ancient Wisdom Across WorldsBy Narin Hikma
Length8h
About this audiobook
There is a kind of work that only becomes visible when somebody gets it wrong.
Qusta ibn Luqa was a Christian in a Muslim empire and a speaker of three languages. For seventy-six years, he turned the medicine, geometry, and astronomy of the ancient world into Arabic for readers who would never learn his name.
He lived through siege and exile, writing the medical handbook by which pilgrims walked to Mecca—a city he could never enter. He died at ninety-two, still working.
Between Spirit and Soul is a narrative biography drawn from documented history: the story of a man who built bridges between worlds with his arms full of manuscripts.
• Sit inside a life built from small, deliberate acts nobody watched
• Understand what the Islamic Golden Age was and who built it
• Know that the work of yours nobody credited was never wasted
This is for anyone who has carried something for others without credit. Open the first page. He is already at the table.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. Ten Months Behind the Walls
2Prologue
1412. The Client of a Dead Man
31. The Boy Beneath the Columns
1513. The Letter
42. The Emperor's Men
1614. Between Spirit and Soul
53. Three Words for One Fever
1715. The Length of a Fever
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64. Into the Land of the Rum
1816. On Numbness
75. What the Rain Took
1917. The Road He Would Never Walk
86. The Round City
2018. The Globe in His Hands
97. The Room Where the Books Were
2119. Sanharib Sends for Him
108. Hunayn
2220. The Dome They Built Over Him
119. The Cost of One Sentence
23Epilogue
1210. The Hand That Feeds
2421. Author's Note
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