Medieval Islamic World - An Intellectual History of Science and Politics

Medieval Islamic World: An Intellectual History of Science and Politics surveys major scientific and philosophical discoveries in the medieval period within the broader Islamicate world, providing an alternative historical framework to that of the primarily Eurocentric history of science and philosophy of science and technology fields. Medieval Islamic World serves to address the history of rationalist inquiry within scholarly institutions in medieval Islamic societies, surveying developments in the fields of medicine and political theory, and the scientific disciplines of astronomy, chemistry, physics, and mechanics, as led by medieval Muslim scholarship.

List of contents

Acknowledgments - Abstracts and Keywords - Introduction - Characteristics of the Islamic Civilization - Islamic Characteristics of Scientific Trends - Qur anic Experimental Method - The Elements of the Scientific Experimental Method in the Qur an - Human Reasoning (al-qiyas) - The Impact of Islamic Medicine on Modern Civilization and Islamic Scientific Heritage of Medicine and Pharmacy - The Impact of Islamic Political Theory on Modern Civilization - Classical Muslim Scholars' Contribution to the Fields of Astronomy,Geography, Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering (Ilm al-Hiyal) - Glossary - About the Author - Index.

About the author

Dr. Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul (Ph.D., McGill University) is Associate Professor at Khalifa University. Among his many published articles and books are Formation of Islamic Jurisprudence (2016), Islamic History and Law (2016), and International Treaties (Mu`ahadat) in Islam (2008).

Summary

Medieval Islamic World serves to address the history of rationalist inquiry within scholarly institutions in medieval Islamic societies, surveying developments in the field of medicine, political theory, and the scientific disciplines of astronomy, chemistry, physics and mechanics as led by medieval Muslim scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul, Bsoul Labeeb Ahmed
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781433151859
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-5185-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 21 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Islam, History, Politics, PHILOSOPHY / General, RELIGION / Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, LAW / Legal History, Science, Islamic, Philosophy of Science, Middle East, Arabic, medieval, History of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Legal History, Central Europe, Middle Eastern history, Western Europe, History of mathematics, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy, intellectual, Farideh, Kamali, Koohi, Ahmed, Labeeb, Bsoul