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Index
List of Figures
List of Plates
Preface
A Note on Names, Pronunciations, Spellings and Dates
A Note on the Term ‘Arabic Science’
1. A Dream of Aristotle
2. The Rise of Islam
3. Translation
4. The Lonely Alchemist
5. The House of Wisdom
6. Big Science
7. Numbers
8. Algebra
9. The Philosopher
10. The Medic
11. The Physicist
12. The Prince and the Pauper
13. Andalusia
14. The Marāgha Revolution
15. Decline and Renaissance
16. Science and Islam Today
Notes
Glossary of Scientists
Timeline: The Islamic World from Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern World
Index
Map 1. The Abbasid Caliphate at the beginning of the Ninth Century.
Map 2. The Middle East and Maghrib, towards the end of the Eleventh Century.
Fig. 1. Schematic map of early Abbāsid Baghdad. Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History o
Fig. 2. Round City projected onto a map of modern Baghdad.
Fig. 3. An ancient Chinese method for proving Pythagoras’ theorem.
Fig. 4. The evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Fig. 5. The first use of a decimal point, in The Book of Chapters on Hindu Arithmetic by al-Uqlīdisi
Fig. 6. An example of a geometric problem requiring the solution of a quadratic equation, taken from
Fig. 7. Ibn Sahl’s diagram showing the law of refraction of light (through a plano-convex lens) for
Fig. 8. The difference between the Greeks’ version of the law of refraction and the correct one desc
Fig. 9. Ibn Mu’ādh’s method for calculating the height of the atmosphere.
Fig. 10. Conic sections.
Fig. 11. Al-Bīrūni’s method for measuring the height of a mountain by geometric means.
Fig. 12. Al-Bīrūni’s method for calculating the circumference of the earth.
Fig. 13. The Ptolemaic model of planetary motion around the earth.
Fig. 14. Comparison between diagrams of Copernicus and al-Tūsi
Fig. 15. The origin of the trigonometric sine of an angle as described by Hindu mathematicians.
1. Abbasid Caliph Harūn al-Rashīd and King Charlemagne, oil painting by Julius Koeckert (1827–1918).
2. Hārūn al-Rashīd and the barber in a Turkish bath, fifteenth-century oil painting. (British Librar
3. The author’s great-great-great uncle, Muhammad Al-Khalili.
4. The author’s paternal grandfather, Merza Muhammad Sādiq Al-Khalili.
5. Members of the Al-Khalili clan in Najaf, 1950.
6. Baghdad’s al-Rashīd Street during a flood, 1950.
7. The Baghdad district of Karradat Merriam.
8. The author and his brother, mid 1960s.
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