Author: Abdur Rahman
Publisher: Kitab Bhavan
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 86
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171513301
Description
Beside the historical triumphs of Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi over fanatic crusaders, the distinguished Muslim Contribution in the sphere of Mathematics, Architecture, Geography, Agriculture, Medicine and Astronomy to distant Europen countries is a great reality and a remarkable event of ancient Western history.
And that is the main subject of this valuable book, a brief sketch but a bulk of information, such as, cultivation and gathering of knowledge under the patronage of Khilafat and transmission of Muslim learning to Christian Europe through various channels including translation from Arabic to Latin to their vernacular languages etc.
Last but not least, it should not be, merely, a lovely story of golden past but a sort of treasure to rejuvenate the characteristic of Muslim Ummah.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Cultivation of Medicine, Mathematics and Astronomy in the Abbasid Regime
Patronage at the Eastern Provincial Courts
Encouragement by the Fatimids
Work in other departments of knowledge
Belles-letters, Religious Literature and Philosophy
Early Arab Notions of Chemitry, Biology and Allied Science
Mechanical Contrivances and Military Science
Fall of Baghdad and Mongol Response to Islam
Arab Enterprise in Africa, Siqiliyah, and Andalus, etc.
Transmission of Arab Learning and Culture to Christian Europe