1st Edition
In The Shadows of Glories Past Jihad for Modern Science in Muslim Societies, 1850 to The Arab Spring
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
Biography
John W. Livingston is Associate Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.
’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
