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Author | : George Saliba |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2011-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262516152 |
Download Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Naidm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance. Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Science and Civilization in Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Muzaffar Iqbal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351764810 |
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This title was first published in 2002. This text seeks to provide the necessary background for understanding the contemporary relationship between Islam and modern science. Presenting an authentic discourse on the Islamic understanding of the physical cosmos, Muzaffar Iqbal explores God's relationship to the created world and the historical and cultural forces that have shaped and defined Muslim attitudes towards science. What was Islamic in the Islamic scientific tradition? How was it rooted in the Qur'anic worldview and whatever happened to it? These are some of the facets of this account of a tradition that spans eight centuries and covers a vast geographical region. Written from within, this ground-breaking exploration of some of the most fundamental questions in the Islam and science discourse, explores the process of appropriation and transformation of the Islamic scientific tradition in Europe during the three centuries leading up to the Scientific revolution.
Author | : Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Islam and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John W. Livingston |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351589261 |
Download The Rise of Science in Islam and the West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a study of science in Muslim society from its rise in the 8th century to the efforts of 19th-century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regain the lost ethos that had given birth to the rich scientific heritage of earlier Muslim civilization. The volume is organized in four parts; the rise of science in Muslim society in its historical setting of political and intellectual expansion; the Muslim creative achievement and original discoveries; proponents and opponents of science in a religiously oriented society; and finally the complex factors that account for the end of the 500-year Muslim renaissance. The book brings together and treats in depth, using primary and secondary sources in Arabic, Turkish and European languages, subjects that are lightly and uncritically brushed over in non-specialized literature, such as the question of what can be considered to be purely original scientific advancement in Muslim civilization over and above what was inherited from the Greco–Syriac and Indian traditions; what was the place of science in a religious society; and the question of the curious demise of the Muslim scientific renaissance after centuries of creativity. The book also interprets the history of the rise, achievement and decline of scientific study in light of the religious temper and of the political and socio-economic vicissitudes across Islamdom for over a millennium and integrates the Muslim legacy with the history of Latin/European accomplishments. It sets the stage for the next momentous transmission of science: from the West back to the Arabic-speaking world of Islam, from the last half of the 19th century to the early 21st century, the subject of a second volume.
Author | : Muzaffar Iqbal |
Publisher | : The Other Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Islam and science |
ISBN | : 9675062312 |
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Author | : Howard R. Turner |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-07-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0292785410 |
Download Science in Medieval Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A “well-organized and interesting” overview of science in the Muslim world in the seventh through seventeenth centuries, with over 100 illustrations (The Middle East Journal). During the Golden Age of Islam, in the seventh through seventeenth centuries A. D., Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. This book offers a fully illustrated, highly accessible introduction to an important aspect of that culture: the scientific achievements of medieval Islam. Howard Turner, who curated the subject for a major traveling exhibition, opens with a historical overview of the spread of Islamic civilization from the Arabian peninsula eastward to India and westward across northern Africa into Spain. He describes how a passion for knowledge led the Muslims during their centuries of empire-building to assimilate and expand the scientific knowledge of older cultures, including those of Greece, India, and China. He explores medieval Islamic accomplishments in cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, geography, medicine, natural sciences, alchemy, and optics. He also indicates the ways in which Muslim scientific achievement influenced the advance of science in the Western world from the Renaissance to the modern era. This survey of historic Muslim scientific achievements offers students and other readers a window into one of the world’s great cultures, one which is experiencing a remarkable resurgence as a religious, political, and social force in our own time.
Author | : Donald R. Hill |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-07-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1474469132 |
Download Islamic Science and Engineering Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Robert Morrison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2007-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135981140 |
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This book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009
Author | : George Beshore |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780531203552 |
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Discusses the extraordinary scientific discoveries and advancements in the Islamic world after the birth of Mohammed in 570 and their impact on Western civilization in subsequent centuries and today.