When Asia Was the World jonathan lyons " "Down by the Riverside

" "Down by the Riverside

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whom Rumi identified with Shams

When Asia Was the World jonathan lyons " "Down by the RiversideWhen 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