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Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the ‘Dark Ages’, the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its ‘Golden Age’. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began in eighth-century Baghdad, enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. Through the astronomers, physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and alchemists of the Muslim world, this knowledge influenced Western thinkers from Thomas Aquinas and Copernicus, and helped inspire the Renaissance and give birth to modern science
Contents:
List of Plates • Prologue: The Scriptorium at the Süleymaniye
Chapter 1: Science Before Science: Mesopotamia and Egypt
Chapter 2: The Land of the Greeks
Chapter 3: The Roads to Baghdad
Chapter 4: ‘Abbasid Baghdad: The House of Wisdom
Chapter 5: ‘Spiritual Physick‘
Chapter 6: From Baghdad to Central Asia
Chapter 7: The Cure of Ignorance
Chapter 8: Fatimid Cairo: The Science of Light
Chapter 9: Ayyubid and Mamluk Cairo: Healing Body and Soul
Chapter 10: Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Chapter 11: Islamic Technology
Chapter 12: Al-Andalus
Chapter 13: From the Maghrib to the Two Sicilies: Arabic into Latin
Chapter 14: Incoherent Philosophers
Chapter 15: Mongol Maragha and Samarkand: Spheres Within Spheres
Chapter 16: Arabic Science and the European Renaissance
Chapter 17: Copernicus and His Arabic Predecessors
Chapter 18: The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 19: The Heritage of Islamic Science
Notes • Bibliography • Index
ISBN - 9781784531386
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Pages : 256
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