Science and Islam: A History
Ehsan Masood
Paperback
9781785782022
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.
Contents
Prologue
1. The Dark Age Myth
Part I: The Islamic Quest
2. The Coming of the Prophet
3. Building Islam
4. Baghdad’s Splendour
5. The Caliph of Science
6. The Flowering of Andalusia
7. Beyond the Abbasids
Part II: Branches of Learning
8. The Best Gift From God
9. Astronomy: The Structured Heaven
10. Number: The Living Universe of Islam
11. At Home in the Elements
12. Ingenious Devices
Part III: Second Thoughts
13. An Endless Frontier
14. One Chapter Closes, Another Begins
15. Science and Islam: Lessons From History
Timeline