The Golden Age of Arab Civilization (L'âge d 'or de la civilisation arabe) by the famous author and novelist Gilbert Sinoye, published by the prestigious French publishing house Fayard on April 2, 2025, is a very important intellectual and historical document that falls under the category of human sciences.
The book comes in a large paper template of 352 pages, and is priced at €22.90 for the paper version and €15.99 for the digital version, bearing ISSN 9782213726748.The author formulates this work in the form of a historical ontology, describing it as a "bottle thrown into the sea" amid a world tossed by waves and turmoil, carrying a double message. On the one hand, he seeks to push the Western reader to imbue the values of this ancient civilization and recognize its human dimensions. On the other hand, he addresses the young Arab reader in particular to remind him of the horizons of intellectual openness and creative boldness that characterized his ancestors, who did not resemble the contemporary models that insist on touching time in stopped hours.The book reviews the biographies and major contributions of the scholars and thinkers of that era who shaped the features of human civilization with their genius, including Ibn Khaldun, the founder of sociology, Ibn Sina, the genius of medicine, Al-Khwarizmi, the founder of algebra and algorithms, Ibn Al-Nafis, the discoverer of the microcirculation, Ali Al-Mousli, the first pioneer in extracting white water from the eye through suction, and Al-Idrisi, who drew one of the most advanced maps of the world in the Middle Ages, along with philosophers and poets such as Ibn Rushd, Al-Farabi, and OmarKhayyam and others; to confirm through them that the Arab civilization lived a real golden age and placed it among the greatest and most magnificent civilizations in the history of mankind.
This work joins the series of huge literary and historical successes achieved by Gilbert Sinoe inside and outside France, where he was known for his deep interest in Islamic and Arab history through prominent works and famous fiction biographies such as "Ibn Sina or the Road to Isfahan", "The Ruby Book", and"The Child of Bruges", in addition to his previous book issued by Fayard HouseAlso in 2017 entitled "Ibn Rushd or Satan's Secretary".
