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During the Middle Ages, a thriving center for learning and
research was Muslim Spain, where students gathered to consult
Arabic manuscripts of earlier scientific works and study with
famous teachers. One of these teachers was Sa'id al-Andalusi, who
in 1068 wrote Kitab Tabaqat al-'Umam, or "Book of the Categories of
Nations," which recorded the contributions to science of all known
nations. Today, it is one of few surviving medieval Spanish Muslim
texts, and this is its first English translation.
Science ('ulum), as used by Sa'id and other scholars of that
period, is a broad term covering virtually all aspects of human
knowledge. After initial discussions of the categories of nations
that did or did not cultivate science, Sa'id details the specific
contribution of nine nations or peoples-India, Persia, Chaldea,
Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Arab Orient, al-Andalus, and the Hebrews.
He includes the names of many individual scientists and scholars
and describes their various contributions to knowledge, making his
book a significant work of reference as well as history.
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