Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

The Origins of Islamic Science

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Note of the editor
• 1. The Ancient Sciences and the Arabs
• 1.1. Mesopotamia
• 1.2. Ancient Egypt
• 1.3. The Greek legacy
• 1.4. Various influences in Pre-Islamic Arabia
• 1.5. The First Occurrences (Awa'il)
• 2. Islam as a Source of Inspiration for Science and Knowledge ('Ilm)
• 2.1. The Rise of Islam and the Early Intellectual Fertilisation
• 2.2. The Islamic Background to Intellectual Activity
• 2.3. Unity of Knowledge: Religious, Rational and Experimental
• 2.4. Maurice Bucaille's Theses
• 3. The Seeds of Islamic Science
• 3.1. Some Chronology
• 3.2. Defining Islamic Science
• 4. Translation as a Source of Knowledge
• 5. Islamic Science or Arabic Science
• 6. Astronomy
• 7. Mathematics
• 8. Alchemy and Chemistry
• 9. Medicine
• 10. Hospitals
• 11. Notes and References