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dc.contributor.authorAbdalla, Mohamad
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:20:33Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:20:33Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.modified2009-12-16T07:11:42Z
dc.identifier.issn08288666
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/eb018895
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27637
dc.description.abstractIslamic science was originally viewed as mere translator and transmitter of Greek, Indian and pre-Islamic Persian science. Recent research has shifted our understanding of Islam's contribution to what is now called "the exact sciences." We now know that Islamic science "was even richer and more profound than we had previously thought." A substantial amount of genuine science was done in Islam, it predated similar discoveries in the West, and it also impacted upon the Renaissance. For example, in the late 1950's, E. S. Kennedy and his students at the American University of Beirut discovered an important work of a fourteenth century Muslim astronomer by the name of Ibn al-Shatir. This discovery showed that Ibn al-Shatir's astronomical inventions were the same type of mechanism used by Copernicus a few centuries later," and may have played a key role in the Copernican revolution. Consequently, an unprecedented acceleration of research into Islamic science started from the 1950s onwards. Recently, historian of Islamic science George Saliba was able to show that one of Copernicus's Muslim contemporaries - Kliafri - was a "brilliant astronomer, whose ability to work with the mathematics of his time is unsurpassed, including that of Copernicus," and that he could use mathematics much more fluently, and much more competently, than Copernicus could do.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom, Canada
dc.publisher.urihttp://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=e0cljps4s93qhioukll7aggaj2&id=H
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom26
dc.relation.ispartofpageto57
dc.relation.ispartofissue3/4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHumanomics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume20
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness and Management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1503
dc.titleThe Fate of Islamic Science Between the Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries: A Comprehensive Review of Scholarship from Ibn Khaldun to the Present
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.date.issued2004
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorAbdalla, Mohamad


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