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 effect of European imperialism on western-oriented religious reformers and secular intellectuals, for whom science and political reform went together, and concludes with a chapter on the state of science in contemporary Muslim societies and the efforts to institutionalize science today.
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 Wests Continuing Progress 15 Bonapartes
Expedition: Savants, Shaykhs and the Institute dEgypte 16 Muhammad Alis
Militarization of Modernization and Educational Reform 17 Foreign Missions 18
Assessment of Muhammad Alis 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 19th Century
1 Post Muhammad Ali Reform in Egypt: Ali Mubaraks 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 Shumayyils Darwin: A Theory for Everything Progressive 7 Scientific
Interpretation: Shaykh Husayn al-Jisr and Darwin 8 Darwin between Sayyid
Ahmad Khans Natcheriyya and Jamal al-Din al-Afghanis Refutation 9 Muhammad
Abduh 10 Abduhs Legacy Part II Science, Society and Government in the Modern
Muslim World 11 Overview of the 20th 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
John W. Livingston is Associate Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
