Islamic Scientific Tradition in History

IslamicScientific Tradition in History (hardcover)

Author: Alparslan Acikgenc

Publisher: IKIM

ISBN: 978-983-2718-19-2

Weight:0.350 kg

Price: RM150

This work is blend of history and philosophy. Its mainobjective is to place the history of science and philosophy in IslamicCivilisation into a proper historical perspective. Attempting to provide aframework of history, this books aims at developing tools by which the historyof Islamic science and philosophy can be examined and identified. To adequatelycarry out of task, the author argues that we need an epistemology of sciencethat must be extracted from history. In short, this piece aspires tore-establish the historical framework of Islamic science tradition. ‘Science’and scientific here are not to be understood exclusively as referring toempirical or experimental disciplines dealing with the physical phenomena, butrather, more inclusively they portray a systematic and formulated knowledge ofa specified subject. The work is original in sense that it offers a newframework for history of science in Islamic civilisation, which isinterestingly applicable to other civilisations as well.