Science and Islam (Icon Science)
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Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.
From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston,
Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the middle ages.
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Ehsan Masood is a senior editor with the science journal Nature, based in London. His other books include The Great Invention, on the story of how GDP became the world's dominant economic indicator. For a decade he taught science and innovation policy at Imperial College London and he is also a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also presented Islam and Science, a three-part series for BBC Radio on science in today's Islamic world.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Introduction to the second edition
- A note on language
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Dark Age Myth
- Part I: The Islamic Quest
- Chapter 2: The Coming of the Prophet
- Chapter 3: Building Islam
- Chapter 4: Baghdad's Splendour
- Chapter 5: The Caliph of Science
- Chapter 6: The Flowering of Andalusia
- Chapter 7: Beyond the Abbasids
- Part II: Branches of Learning
- Chapter 8: The Best Gift From God
- Chapter 9: Astronomy: The Structured Heaven
- Chapter 10: Number: The Living Universe of Islam
- Chapter 11: At Home in the Elements
- Chapter 12: Ingenious Devices
- Part III: Second Thoughts
- Chapter 13: An Endless Frontier
- Chapter 14: One Chapter Closes, Another Begins
- Chapter 15: Science and Islam: Lessons From History
- Timeline
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Index
- Back Cover
