When Asia Was the World jonathan lyons but scholars then had only

but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence

whom Rumi identified with Shams

discerning yet impartial

there is no place for the subjugation to human authority demanded by authoritarian regimes

When Asia Was the World jonathan lyons but scholars then had onlyWhen Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the "East" While European civilization stagnated in the Dark Ages, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange