Embedding Scientific Ideas as a Mode of Science Transmission
by George Saliba Published on: 7th July 2018
I used the discipline of astronomy as a template to record the transmitted ideas and hoped that other people, who work on other disciplines, would do the same, all in an effort to paint a…
A New Book by George Saliba: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
by George Saliba Published on: 27th March 2007
This article reviews the new book Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba. The book describes the rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic…
Copernicus and Arabic Astronomy: A Review of Recent Research
by George Saliba Published on: 23rd May 2007
Some 800 years in the past, in 1206, a brilliant Muslim scholar died : Badi' al-Zaman Abu al-‘Izz ibn Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari. He was one of the most important inventors and mechanical engineers in…
George Saliba on the Decline of Islamic Science
by Media Desk Published on: 18th October 2012
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks…
Professor George Saliba Lectures
by Media Desk Published on: 7th November 2013
George Saliba has been a Professor of Arabic Science at the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, United States, since 1979.
Interview with Professor George Saliba
by Kaleem Hussain Published on: 27th May 2009
Welcome to another Muslim Heritage Radio Show. The aim of this show is to educate the listeners about the contributions Muslim Scholars have made from a classical perspective in a wide range of fields, but…
Video: AUB Beirut COVID-19 Briefings Ep 7 with George Saliba
by Media Desk Published on: 22nd December 2020
The American University of Beirut - Episode 7 of COVID-19 Briefings: Pandemic Lessons from Arabic-Islamic Science and History with Prof. George Saliba - May 27, 2020
The Role & Originality of Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries, by Professor George Saliba
by Media Desk Published on: 4th May 2014
Most students of Islamic civilisation are still under the impression that the golden age of that civilisation, in terms of philosophical and scientific production, came to an end sometime around the beginning of the thirteenth-century…
Science and Engineering in the Islamic Heritage Symposium
by Al-Furqan Published on: 31st August 2017
“Science and Engineering in the Islamic Heritage”, a Symposium organised by Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation – Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts, in co-operation with the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (UK), on…
Portable Cosmologies
by Alexandria Hejazi Tsagaris Published on: 8th July 2020
15-16th Century Italian-Islamic Exchanges of the Astrolabe and Effects on Visual Culture
Islam & the transformation of Greek Science
by Media Desk Published on: 1st June 2011
By Professor George Saliba from Columbia University...
New Discoveries in the Islamic Complex of Mathematics, Architecture and Art
by Salim Al-Hassani Published on: 13th August 2009
The complex of disciplines composed of mathematics, architecture and art in Islamic civilisation has been an important field of recent research. The scholars showed the interaction between mathematical reflexion and procedures and their implementation in…
Speech by President Barack Obama in Egypt: Civilisation’s Debt to Islam
by Media Desk Published on: 18th February 2009
Speech by President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009...
How the Asr Prayer led to Modern Astronomy
by Media Desk Published on: 19th August 2011
Can "religion" spark a scientific revolution? Can science develop just in order to respond to the growing needs of religion?...
A Plea for the Recovery of the Forgotten History of Muslim Heritage
by Ruveyda Ozturk Published on: 10th January 2009
This is a review of the book published in 2007 by Michael Hamilton Morgan, Lost History. The essay attempts to uncover the Golden Age of the Muslim civilisation and recognises its contributions to the rise…
Academic Conference: ‘1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World’
by 1001 Inventions Published on: 8th June 2010
On 25th and 26th May 2010 the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) was proud to host a high profile academic conference in the Director's Suite at the London Science Museum.
Natural Sciences in the Islamic Context
by Glen M. Cooper Published on: 11th August 2025
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Islamic science as well as current issues and future trends in the discipline. Significant references to modern scholarship on Islamic science and medicine, including the…
Allah’s Automata – A Review of the Exhibition
by Charles Savage Published on: 2nd December 2015
Reflections on: A New Exhibition on Artifacts of the Arab/Islamic Renaissance ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany: October 30, 2015 - February 28, 2016 http://zkm.de/en/event/2015/10/globale-allahs-automata by Dr. Charles M. Savage Knowledge Era Enterprises International Munich, Germany http://www.kee-inc.com
Proceedings of the Academic Conference 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World
by The Editorial Team Published on: 26th May 2010
25-26 May 2010, FSTC organised the high profile academic conference 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World at the London Science Museum.
Ahmad Salim Sa‘idan: A Palestinian Historian of Arabic Mathematics
by Mohammed Abattouy Published on: 23rd January 2009
Since the middle of the 20th century, the history of Arabic mathematics evolved as a sub-field of history of science and became an area of a special expertise in which intermingled the skills of confirmed…