{"product_id":"scienceandislamahistory","title":"Science and Islam: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEhsan Masood\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9781785782022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the middle ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Dark Age Myth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I: The Islamic Quest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Coming of the Prophet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Building Islam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Baghdad’s Splendour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. The Caliph of Science\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Flowering of Andalusia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Beyond the Abbasids\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II: Branches of Learning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. The Best Gift From God\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Astronomy: The Structured Heaven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Number: The Living Universe of Islam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. At Home in the Elements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Ingenious Devices\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III: Second Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. An Endless Frontier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. One Chapter Closes, Another Begins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. Science and Islam: Lessons From History\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTimeline\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Icon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":5468306604067,"sku":"9781785782022","price":24.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/Science_and_Islam.jpg?v=1515334564","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/scienceandislamahistory","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}