The staggering achievements of these men and women influenced the development of modern mathematics, science, engineering, and medicine. From the first stone flints sharpened by prehistoric man to the spoke wheel and from the first steam powered machine to manual manoeuvring units for space walks, this book explores the stories behind the innovations and traces the Traces centuries of invention and technological innovation in the Muslim world, revealing how Muslim intellectuals built elephant water clocks, drew detailed world maps, and built colossal architectural structures.
This book is about a Golden Age of civilization from to , often regarded as the "Dark Ages. This book explores the fascinating stories behind the breakthroughs and traces the development of each invention from original concept to completion. Many of the facts lend themselves to further exploration through research projects, activities, web searches, and more.
This guide provides questions, key website, and suggestions for such activities and creative programs. This fourth edition has been made available online to provide anyone anywhere, and more particularly students all over the world, with the possibility of broadening their appreciation of the contributions to science during the Golden Age of Muslim civilisation, and to see it as part of the main history of intellectual culture.
While seeking to redress some of the neglect of science in Muslim Heritage, our work strongly acknowledges the Muslim debt to other civilizations; Chinese, Hindu, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian as well as the modern Western civilization. We particularly acknowledge our debt to Western scholarship that has enlightened us on the merits and accomplishments of Muslim civilization.
This new edition owes in very large measure to the many colleagues see list below who made it possible. The book uncovers groundbreaking scientific and technological advances made during a thousand-year period from the 7 th century onwards.
Through its seven main sections, it covers diverse aspects of life relevant to our every day lives including home, school, hospital, market, town, world and universe. It ends by a chapter entitled Wealth of Knowledge giving short biographical notes on significant scholars of various faiths embraced by Muslim civilisation and on various related European scholars of the time.
This new edition of the book casts new light and delivers new insights, and includes many new sources, extensive references and footnotes. The many scholars who reviewed the previous edition helped draw attention to many shortcomings and added so much valuable material to the previous editions.
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