Science and Islam A History Long before the European Enlightenment scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy chemistry engineering mathem

Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.From Musa al Khwarizmi, who developed algebra in ninth century Baghdad, to al Jazari, a 13th century Turkish engineer whose achievements includeLong before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.From Musa al Khwarizmi, who developed algebra in ninth century Baghdad, to al Jazari, a 13th century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the Middle Ages.