Western Science in the Arab World
Author: Adel A Ziadat
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1986-09-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1349183458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adel A Ziadat
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1986-09-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1349183458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adel A. Ziadat
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780312864330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Toby E. Huff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-08-18
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521823029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 2003 study examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To explain this outcome, Tony E. Huff explores the cultural - religious, legal, philosophical, and institutional - contexts within which science was practised in Islam, China, and the West. He finds in the history of law and the European cultural revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries major clues as to why the ethos of science arose in the West, permitting the breakthrough to modern science that did not occur elsewhere. This line of inquiry leads to novel ideas about the centrality of the legal concept of corporation, which is unique to the West and gave rise to the concepts of neutral space and free inquiry.
Author: Ian Campbell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-25
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 3319914332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages with a theoretical concept he terms “double estrangement” wherein these texts provide social or political criticism through estrangement and simultaneously critique their own societies’ inability or refusal to engage in the sort of modernization that would lead the Arab world back to leadership in science and technology.
Author: Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the development of scientific knowledge in the Arab world and its influence on the West during the Middle Ages.
Author: Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0141965010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements of the ancient Greeks were not matched until the European Renaissance in the 16th century, a 1,000-year period dismissed as the Dark Ages. In the ninth-century, however, the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Ma'mun, created the greatest centre of learning the world had ever seen, known as Bayt al-Hikma, the House of Wisdom. The scientists and philosophers he brought together sparked a period of extraordinary discovery, in every field imaginable, launching a golden age of Arabic science. Few of these scientists, however, are now known in the western world. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a polymath who outshines everyone in history except Leonardo da Vinci? The Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system? Or the 13th-century Andalucian physician Ibn al-Nafees, who correctly described blood circulation 400 years before William Harvey? Iraqi Ibn al-Haytham who practised the modern scientific method 700 years before Bacon and Descartes, and founded the field of modern optics before Newton? Or even ninth-century zoologist al-Jahith, who developed a theory of natural selection a thousand years before Darwin? The West needs to see the Islamic world through new eyes and the Islamic world, in turn, to take pride in its extraordinarily rich heritage. Anyone who reads this book will understand why.
Author: Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1101476230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling flowering?
Author: John Freely
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780755600007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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 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 astrologers, 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author: Scott, James M.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-08-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1839107650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comprehensive guide captures important trends in international relations (IR) pedagogy, paying particular attention to innovations in active learning and student engagement for the contemporary International Relations IR classroom.
Author: Abderrahmane Bendaoud
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 3319967940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the result of the work of the first international congress of the ArabGU (Arabian Geosciences Union) which took place in Algiers (Algeria) in February 2016. It presents research articles and review papers on geology of the North Africa and Arabian Middle East . It provides information to the public on various fields of earth sciences and encourages further research in this field in order to attract an international audience.