viii | CONTENTS
Chapter 7. VIEWPOINTS AROUND 1000: ṬŪS, BASRA,
BAGHDAD, PISA 198
Tūs/Iran 199
Basra/Encyclopedism 204
Baghdad/Rationality 207
Pisa/The Latin West 212
Prospects for further research 219
map: the Eurasian hinge, with circum-arabian
trade routes 106
Index 225