Talk:History of science in the Islamic World

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Article is good, but i feelt that the Historiography of Islamic science section needs a few pro-Islamic sience quotes to avoid being unbalanced. I dont have any such at hand, so ill settle with puting up a sign. Peace. --Striver 12:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you might find something of the sort you're looking for in the writings of S. H. Nasr, which I don't have at hand either. Nasr argues that there is something in Islamic culture that conditions a particular approach to science, especially the interest in mathematics. A passage from his Science and Civilization in Islam that I used to use in teaching says "... one can already see why mathematics was to make such a strong appeal to the Muslim: its abstract nature furnished the bridge that Muslims were seeking between multiplicity and unity." As I read Nasr, the Muslim monotheistic emphasis upon the divine one led them to a mathematical approach as they sought to understand the multiplicity of created nature. --SteveMcCluskey 02:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I found it on the web, and added a quotation from Nasr. I think I'll remove your template. --SteveMcCluskey 02:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The neutrality template was restored at 13:35, 2 March 2007, by new editor 82.26.111.153 (talk · contribs · count · logs), without any explanation on the talk page or in the history. Lacking any justification for its presence, I'll remove the template. --SteveMcCluskey 21:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Power/science[edit]

We may be conflating power and science here. If a political group gains ascendancy, does it follow that the science espoused by the losing group is lost? Or is it suppressed. When a Supreme Court of the United States declares that an environmental protection agency has sufficient power to control the gases thought to contributed to climate change, is that a scientific, political, or economic declaration? When a leadership seeks goal A, and A contradicts view B, is that science, politics, or what?

What I am getting at is the rise of ... and decline of ... headers. Are they even useful? Or might they be refactored? Ancheta Wis 18:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that the headers include some reference to scientific revolution. They contributed, if this article is any indicator. --Ancheta Wis 00:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Scientific Revolution might be a useful header, but it couldn't replace the headers "rise" and "decline", which refer to changes in the Islamic World. The scientific revolution is primaily a Western European historical phenomenon. The Islamic influence on European science was greatest from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries.

BTW, most historians of Islamic science don't appreciate it being treated merely for its influence on Western Europe, it is an object worthy of study in its own regard. SteveMcCluskey 00:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge[edit]

Discuss at Talk:Islamic science#Proposed merger--Sefringle 03:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]