Science and Civilization in Islam

Abstract

Introduction A. The Principles of Islam B. The Perspectives within Islamic Civilization 1. The Universal Figures of Islamic Science 2. The Basis of the Teaching System and the Educational Institutions 3. Cosmology, Cosmography, Geography, and Natural History 4. Physics 5. Mathematics 6. Astronomy 7. Medicine 8. The Sciences of Man 9. The Alchemical Tradition 10. Islamic Alchemy and its Influence in the Western World 11. Philosophy 12. The Controversies of Philosophy and Theology 13. The Gnostic Tradition Selected Bibliography Index.