Talk:History of science in the Islamic World

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)


 * 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)


 * 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)


 * The neutrality template was restored at 13:35, 2 March 2007, by new editor, 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)

Power/science
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)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Proposed merge
Discuss at Talk:Islamic science--Sefringle 03:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)