When Scinece and civilization was published originally in 1968 by the Harvard University Press, it was the first work in the English Language to deal with the whole of Islamic Science. Based on the century of scholarship by Western historians of science and Islamicists as well as the scholarship of Mulim scholars, the work sought to present Islamic science not as a chapter in the history of western science, but as an integral aspect of Islamic civilization and the Islamic intellectual traditions.This book has played and continues to play a humble roel in this historic debate.It continues to be taught and studied in many universities in both the Islamic and west world.

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1. Name: thea amr; City: arlington; State: VA; Rating: Excellent
this book should be on most muslim bookshelves who live away from their native lands. even a child can look through the illustrations and see how early islamic authors were knowledgeable in most of our modern sciences, and transmitted these sciences [and math] to europe. although the book is for the educated adult, the book will also make the child proud to be a muslim, especially in these times when islam is not too popular in the west.

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