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The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems,...

Al-Ğāhiz, an Arabic scientist of the 9th century, belongs to the thinkers whose participation in and contribution to the development of the world science has not been recognized and appreciated. The great erudite and author of numerous works in various areas formulated, among others, the theory of social communication which may be compared to the late 20th century Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of...

O książce: To znakomite studium dziejów dawnej Afryki. Wychodząc od pojedynczych znalezisk archeologicznych - jak słynny złoty nosorożec z Mapungubwe, krótkich wzmianek w relacjach Europejczyków, Arabów i Chińczyków czy też ustnych przekazów - autor rekonstruuje barwne krainy Afryki, która nie znajdowała się na peryferiach ówczesnego świata, a wręcz przeciwnie - na nią skierowana była niejednokrotnie...