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• Le défi du 3ème millénaire
• II. Le ballet planétaire.

• Finding partners for the promotion of democratic Islam-- options-- Sufis - a proposed strategy-- build up a modernist leadership-- go on the offensive against fundamentalists-- assertively promote the values of Western democratic modernity - overview-- elements of the strategy - the hadith wars-- Hijab as a case study.
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Islam's own internal struggles make it difficult for outsiders to understand the actors and the issues. The author sheds light on these issues and suggests ways for the international community to cope.
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Science; education; North Africa; history; 16th-19th century

• Acknowledgments - Abstracts and Keywords - Introduction - Characteristics of the Islamic Civilization - Islamic Characteristics of Scientific Trends - Qur'anic Experimental Method - The Elements of the Scientific Experimental Method in the Qur'an - Human Reasoning (al-qiyas) - The Impact of Islamic Medicine on Modern Civilization and Islamic Scientific Heritage of Medicine and Pharmacy - The Impact of Islamic Political Theory on Modern Civilization - Classical Muslim Scholars' Contribution to the Fields of Astronomy, Geography, Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering ('Ilm al-Hiyal) - Glossary - About the Author - Index.
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Medieval Islamic World: An Intellectual History of Science and Politics surveys major scientific and philosophical discoveries in the medieval period within the broader Islamicate world, providing an alternative historical framework to that of the primarily Eurocentric history of science and philosophy of science and technology fields. Medieval Islamic World serves to address the history of rationalist inquiry within scholarly institutions in medieval Islamic societies, surveying developments in the fields of medicine and political theory, and the scientific disciplines of astronomy, chemistry, physics, and mechanics, as led by medieval Muslim scholarship.
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• 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.
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This is a study of science in Muslim society from its rise in the 8th century to the efforts of 19th-century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regain the lost ethos that had given birth to the rich scientific heritage of earlier Muslim civilization. The volume is organized in four parts; the rise of science in Muslim society in its historical setting of political and intellectual expansion; the Muslim creative achievement and original discoveries; proponents and opponents of science in a religiously oriented society; and finally the complex factors that account for the end of the 500-year Muslim renaissance. The book brings together and treats in depth, using primary and secondary sources in Arabic, Turkish and European languages, subjects that are lightly and uncritically brushed over in non-specialized literature, such as the question of what can be considered to be purely original scientific advancement in Muslim civilization over and above what was inherited from the Greco-Syriac and Indian traditions; what was the place of science in a religious society; and the question of the curious demise of the Muslim scientific renaissance after centuries of creativity. The book also interprets the history of the rise, achievement and decline of scientific study in light of the religious temper and of the political and socio-economic vicissitudes across Islamdom for over a millennium and integrates the Muslim legacy with the history of Latin/European accomplishments. It sets the stage for the next momentous transmission of science: from the West back to the Arabic-speaking world of Islam, from the last half of the 19th century to the early 21st century, the subject of a second volume.
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• Ionia : the first physicists
• Classical Athens : the school of Hellas
• Hellenistic Alexandria : the museum and the library
• From Athens to Rome, Constantinople, and Jundishapur
• Baghdad's house of wisdom : Greek into Arabic
• The Islamic Renaissance
• Cairo and Damascus
• Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain
• From Toledo to Palermo : Arabic into Latin
• Paris and Oxford I : reinterpreting Aristotle
• Paris and Oxford II : the emergence of European science
• From Byzantium to Italy : Greek into Latin
• The revolution of the heavenly spheres
• The debate over the two world systems
• The scientific revolution
• Samarkand to Istanbul : the long twilight of Islamic science
• Science lost and found
• Harran : the road to Baghdad.