This book examines and critiques the theory of the decline of
Islamic science using the work of the fourteenth century
sociologist, Ibn Khaldun, and contemporary evidence in the fields
of mathematics, medicine and astronomy. The central argument of the
book is that after Ibn Khaldun there was a centuries long gap in
which even excellent historians of science used simple, dismissive
terms and concepts defined by a limited, but highly persistent,
bundle of interpretative views with a dominant theme of decline.
The book assesses the logic and empirical accuracy of the decline
theory and investigates some procedural and social-physiological
factors that may have given rise to inadequacies in understanding
the fate of Islamic science after the eleventh century. It also
attempts to construct an intellectual model for the fate of Islamic
science, one that examines the cultural environment and the
interactions among different cultural dynamics at work.
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