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World History: Cultural Diffusion in the Islamic World: Science, Mathematics, Libraries & Scholarship

Close Up: Ornamental Tile Border, Friday Mosque, Yazd, Iran. Photo by A. Davey, 2010. (CC BY 2.0)

Mathematics & Geometric Design

Indo-Arabic Numbers
Bibliographic information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 177-179. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.

Arabic Numerals
Muslim rule and compass: the magic of Islamic geometric design
Islamic Mathematics
Bibliographic information:
"Islamic Mathematics." Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
www.csames.illinois.edu/documents/outreach/Islamic_Mathematics.pdf.
Islamic Artisans Constructed Exotic Nonrepeating Pattern 500 Years Before Mathematicians

Alchemy & Chemistry

Al-Kimiya: Notes on Arabic Alchemy
The Alchemy of Mineral Acids
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Alchemy: Islamic Alchemy
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Islamic Chemical technology

Medicine

The Medical Influence of Rhazes
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Unani-Tibbi
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Medicine and Health
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Ophthalmology and Surgery
Pharmaceutics and Alchemy
The Islamic Roots of the Modern Hospital

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Astronomy & Optical Science

Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World

Arabic Astronomy
Bibliographic Information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 186-188. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.

Astronomical Tables: Applications and Improvements During the Middle Ages
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Astronomical Innovation in the Islamic World

Astrolabe
Bibliographic Information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 167-170. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.

Kamal Al-Din Al-Farisi’s Explanation of the Rainbow
Scholarly article
The Dark Origins of the Scientific Method (11:53) 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room studying the light that filtered in. Not only did he revolutionize how we literally see the world, he pioneered the scientific method that is now the backbone of modern science.
In retrospect: Book of Optics

Al-Hayatham & Optics
Bibliographic Information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 182-184. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.

Alhazen's Billiard Problem
Note: Alhazen = Al-Hayatham. This guy is incredibly influential.

Libraries & Scholarship

House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma)
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Libraries
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Arabic translators did far more than just preserve Greek philosophy
Translators
Bibliographic information:
"Translators" Islamic Philosophy, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998.

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