1st Edition
The Rise of Science in Islam and the West From Shared Heritage to Parting of The Ways, 8th to 19th Centuries
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
Biography
John W. Livingston is Associate Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.
