Science & Islam: A History

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History's least-known yet most fertile period in science was the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400. The story of the scientists and inventors is woven into a journey through the Islamic empires of the middle ages that enabled this revolution, and its contribution to science in Western culture.

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History's least-known yet most fertile period in science was the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400. The story of the scientists and inventors is woven into a journey through the Islamic empires of the middle ages that enabled this revolution, and its contribution to science in Western culture.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781848310810
  • Publisher: Icon Books, Ltd. UK
  • Publication date: 5/25/2010
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 1,300,461
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

A note on language ix

Prologue xiii

1 The Dark Age Myth 1

Part I The Islamic Quest 15

2 The Coming of the Prophet 17

3 Building Islam 29

4 Baghdad's Splendour 39

5 The Caliph of Science 55

6 The Flowering of Andalusia 65

7 Beyond the Abbasids 81

Part II Branches of Learning 93

8 The Best Gift From God 95

9 Astronomy: The Structured Heaven 117

10 Number: The Living Universe of Islam 139

11 At Home in the Elements 153

12 Ingenious Devices 161

Part III Second Thoughts 167

13 An Endless Frontier 169

14 One Chapter Closes, Another Begins 187

15 Science and Islam: Lessons from History 207

Timeline 217

Acknowledgements 223

Sources 227

Index 233

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