In the Shadows of Glories Past: Jihad for Modern Science in Muslim Societies, 1850 to the Arab Spring

ISBN-13: 9780367592851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 460 str.

John W. Livingston

Opis

This volume reveals the undermining effect of European imperialism on western-oriented religious reformers and secular intellectuals, for whom science and political reform went together, and concludes with a chapter on the state of science in contemporary Muslim societies and the efforts to institutionalize science (before the upheavals of 2011)

Recenzje

’This book surpasses almost every other book that deals with science in Islamic civilization, because it does not stop the narrative with the classical presumed golden age of that civilization, but encompasses the whole range of scientific activities from the very beginning until our own time. It is comprehensive, and far more interested in the cultural, social, economic, and political details than other books of its genre.’ George Saliba, Columbia University, USA

Spis treści

Part I  Copernicus, Darwin and Islamic intellectual reform in Muslim societies during the last half of the 19th century

1 The Ottomans: Absolutist state reformers versus Young Ottoman constitutionalists

2 Post Muhammad Ali reform: Khedive Ismail and Ali Mubarak’s Dar al-Ulum and Rawdat al-Madaris

3 Beirut: the American College and the popularization of science

4 Muqtataf, Rawdat al-Madaris and the Fikri treatise on a moving earth

5 Darwin between Muqtataf and the American evangelists

6 From Copernicus to Darwin

7 Shibli Shumayyil’s Darwin: a theory for everything progressive

8 Scientific Interpretation: Shaykh Husayn al-Jisr and Darwin

9 Darwin between Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Natcheriyya and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani’s refutation

10 Muhammad Abduh

11 Abduh’s legacy

Part II Science, society and government in the modern Muslim world

12 Overview of the 20th century

13 Darwin at the center of debate

14 Inverse appropriation: science by Quran

15 Scientific Interpretation

16 Scientific Interpretation and evolution

17 The place of Al-Azhar and the ulema

18 Science and the contemporary state

　Epilogue

Index

O autorze

John W. Livingston is Associate Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.