Description: The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.
Review Quotes: "Saliba's book is essential reading for those who wish to understand the remarkable phenomenon of the 'rise' and 'fall' of the Islamic scientific tradition. His analysis takes place against the backdrop of the broader question of what produces scientific activity in a society, what sustains it and enables it to flourish. Saliba's singular achievement derives as much from the stimulating questions he raises as from his provocative answers. His iconoclastic views will fuel scholarly debates for decades to come."--Gul A. Russell, Department of Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, editor of "The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England"