Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance / George Saliba.
2007
Q127.I742 S35 2007eb
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Title
Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance / George Saliba.
Author
Saliba, George, author.
ISBN
9780262282888 (electronic bk.)
0262282887 (electronic bk.)
0262195577 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262195577 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1282098284
9780262516150
0262516152
0262282887 (electronic bk.)
0262195577 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262195577 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1282098284
9780262516150
0262516152
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
Q127.I742 S35 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.17/67
Summary
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadim that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance."--Jacket.
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