1st Edition
New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science Volume 3
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.
Biography
Muzaffar Iqbal is the founder-president of Center for Islam and Science, Canada. He is the author, editor and translator of twenty-one books on various aspects of Islam, its spiritual and intellectual traditions, Islam and the West, and the history of Islamic science. He is the General Editor of the forthcoming seven-volume Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, the first English language reference work on the Qur'an based on fourteen centuries of Muslim reflection and scholarship.
’...it certainly fulfils its explicit purpose of presenting a sample of the rich harvest which has fundamentally changed our view of the enterprise of science in Islamic civilization from the way it was viewed at the beginning of the twentieth century’. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation