Two Volume Set: In the Shadows of Glories Past and the Rise of Science in Islam and the West

ISBN-13: 9781032095769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 1068 str.

John W. Livingston

Opis

This is a study of science in Muslim society. The first volume starts at the rise of science in the eighth century and explores the efforts of nineteenth century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regain the lost ethos that had given birth to the rich scientific heritage of earlier Muslim civilization. The second volume reveals the undermining eff

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Rise of Science in Islam and the West:

Part I Islam in Ascendance  Preface  1 Historical Setting of the Great Age  2 The Record of Original Achievement  3 Science in a Religious Society  4 Al-Ghazali at the Crossroads  Part II The Latin Connection: From Greco-Arab Classical to European Modern  5 The Latin Connections: Translation and Transmission  6 Latin Assimilation and Ascendancy  7 Renaissance and Revolution  Part III From Muslim Empires in Rise and Fall to Western Ascendance  8 Military Ascendancy: 1258-1600  9 Prologue to Decline: The Past as Future  10 Military Misfortune and the Beginning of Scientific and Technical Transfer 1600-1722  11 The Tulip Period  12 Toward a New Order  13 The New Order  Part IV Catching Up to the West: Science Assimilation in Cairo and Istanbul under Autocratic Reformers  14 The West’s Continuing Progress  15 Bonaparte’s Expedition: Savants, Shaykhs and the Institute d’Egypte  16 Muhammad Ali’s Militarization of Modernization and Educational Reform  17 Foreign Missions  18 Assessment of Muhammad Ali’s Reforms  19 Azharite Shaykhs and Modern Science  20 Intensification of Ottoman Reform under Sultan Mahmud II  21 Absolutist State Reformers vs. Young Ottoman Constitutionalists: The Young Turks and End of Empire

In the Shadows of Glories Past:

Part I Copernicus, Darwin and Islamic Intellectual Reform in the 19^th Century  1 Post Muhammad Ali Reform in Egypt: Ali Mubarak’s Dar al-Ulum and Rawdat al-Madaris  2 Beirut: The American College and the Popularization of Science  3 Muqtataf, Rawdat al-Madaris and the Fikri Treatise on a Moving Earth  4 Darwin between Muqtataf and the American Evangelists  5 From Copernicus to Darwin  6 Shibli Shumayyil’s Darwin: A Theory for Everything Progressive  7 Scientific Interpretation: Shaykh Husayn al-Jisr and Darwin  8 Darwin between Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Natcheriyya and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani’s Refutation  9 Muhammad Abduh  10 Abduh’s Legacy Part II Science, Society and Government in the Modern Muslim World  11 Overview of the 20^th Century  12 Darwin at the Center of Debate  13 Inverse Appropriation: Science by Quran  14 Scientific Interpretation  15 Scientific Interpretation and Evolution  16 The Place of Al-Azhar and the Ulema  17 Science and the Contemporary State  Epilogue

O autorze

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