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The Rise of Science in Islam and the West - From Shared Heritage to Parting of the Ways, 8th to 19th Centuries (Paperback)
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The Rise of Science in Islam and the West - From Shared Heritage to Parting of the Ways, 8th to 19th Centuries (Paperback)
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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.
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