Islam Science And The Challenge Of History

Author : Ahmad Dallal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300159141

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Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History by Ahmad Dallal Pdf

"In this wide-ranging and masterly work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies. He traces the ways the realms of scientific knowledge and religious authority were delineated historically. For example, the emergence of new mathematical methods revealed that many mosques built in the early period of Islamic expansion were misaligned relative to the Ka'ba in Mecca; this misalignment was critical because Muslims must face Mecca during their five daily prayers. The realization of a discrepancy between tradition and science often led to demolition and rebuilding and, most important, to questioning whether scientific knowledge should take precedence over religious authority in a matter where their realms clearly overlapped"--Page 2 of cover.

Author : Muzaffar Iqbal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351914772

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New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science by Muzaffar Iqbal Pdf

Recent studies in the history of Islamic science based on the discovery and study of new primary texts and instruments have substantially revised the views of nineteenth-century historians of science. This volume presents some of these ground-breaking studies as well as articles which shed new light on the ongoing academic debate surrounding the question of the decline of Islamic scientific tradition.

Author : Ehsan Masood
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781848311602

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Science & Islam by Ehsan Masood Pdf

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, Science and Islam tells the story of one of history’s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400 CE.

Author : Shabeer Ahmed
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540458210

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Development of Science & Technology in Islamic History by Shabeer Ahmed Pdf

The spectacular advances in science and technology that have occurred over the last century have led some to believe that only Western Capitalism can produce material progress. Does religion hinder man's progress in life? Is there a contradiction between Islam and science? Why are the countries of the Islamic world so technologically backward? Is Islam capable of addressing man's diverse problem in the 21st century? This book tackles these questions by exploring the relationship between Islam and science, by examining how science bloomed under Islam while Europe struggled in the Dark Ages and by illustrating a distinct vision for future scientific and technological advancement under the Islamic State.

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0873955439

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Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Pdf

The economic, social, political, military, and intellectual aspects of the Muslims' concern for history reveal the general structure of their perception of reality.

Author : John W. Livingston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351589260

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The Rise of Science in Islam and the West by John W. Livingston Pdf

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 : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103224304X

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New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Recent studies in the history of Islamic science based on the discovery and study of new primary texts and instruments have substantially revised the views of nineteenth-century historians of science. This volume presents some of these ground-breaking studies as well as articles which shed new light on the ongoing academic debate surrounding the question of the decline of Islamic scientific tradition.

Author : Jörg Matthias Determann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755601301

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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life by Jörg Matthias Determann Pdf

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries have produced highly imaginative accounts on one of the frontiers of knowledge: astrobiology, or the study of life in the universe. This book argues that the Islamic tradition has been generally supportive of conceptions of extra-terrestrial life, and in this engaging account, Jörg Matthias Determann provides a survey of Arabic, Bengali, Malay, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu texts and films, to show how scientists and artists in and from Muslim-majority countries have been at the forefront of the exciting search. Determann takes us to little-known dimensions of Muslim culture and religion, such as wildly popular adaptations of Star Wars and mysterious movements centred on UFOs. Repression is shown to have helped science fiction more than hurt it, with censorship encouraging authors to disguise criticism of contemporary politics by setting plots in future times and on distant planets. The book will be insightful for anyone looking to explore the science, culture and politics of the Muslim world and asks what the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would mean for one of the greatest faiths.

Author : J. P. Hogendijk,A. I. Sabra
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0262194821

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The Enterprise of Science in Islam by J. P. Hogendijk,A. I. Sabra Pdf

Recent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.

Author : Osman Bakar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Islam and science
ISBN : UOM:39015029049965

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Tawhid and Science by Osman Bakar Pdf

Author : George Saliba
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 9780262195577

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Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba Pdf

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-Nadim [macron over i] 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 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 understanding 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 : Muzaffar Iqbal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351914789

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New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science by Muzaffar Iqbal Pdf

Recent studies in the history of Islamic science based on the discovery and study of new primary texts and instruments have substantially revised the views of nineteenth-century historians of science. This volume presents some of these ground-breaking studies as well as articles which shed new light on the ongoing academic debate surrounding the question of the decline of Islamic scientific tradition.

Author : Glaire Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190913243

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A Bridge to the Sky by Glaire Anderson Pdf

A Bridge to the Sky explores the close connections between science, arts, and visual culture as they developed in the medieval Islamic lands. It presents a significant study of the career of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas, (d. 887), the most celebrated 'scientist' and polymath of early Islamic Spain, best known for conducting an experiment that has been celebrated as a milestone in the history of human flight.

Author : Ehsan Masood
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785782152

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Science and Islam (Icon Science) by Ehsan Masood Pdf

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.

Author : Muzaffar Iqbal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351897266

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Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion by Muzaffar Iqbal Pdf

Situated between the Greek, Indian and Persian scientific traditions and modern science, the Islamic scientific tradition received, enriched, transformed and then bequeathed scientific knowledge to Europe. The articles selected for this volume explore the fascinating process of knowledge in motion between different civilizations.