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Science and civilization in Islam
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- Creator
- by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Format
- Manuscripts, Theses
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Cambridge] : [International Society for Science and Religion], [2007?]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 388 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781903682401, 1903682401, 9780946621401
- OCLC
- ocn757354791
- "NS01" -- Spine.
- Previously published: Cambridge : Islamic Texts Society, ©1987. 2nd ed.
- Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1968.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-365) and index.
- Introduction -- The prinicples of Islam -- The perspectives within Islamic civilization -- The universal figures of Islamic science -- The basis of the teaching system and the educational institutions -- Cosmology, cosmography, geography and natural history -- Physics -- Mathematics -- Astronomy -- Medicine -- The sciences of man -- The alchemical tradition -- Islamic alchemy and its influence in the western world -- Philosophy -- The controversies of philosophy and theology -- The later schools os philosophy -- The Gnostic tradition