The only references are listed as a bibliography at the end of the book. Hopefully, the public intellectual strives to be like Carl Sagan and not Thomas Friedman, who can no doubt answer all of your questions. But the wider public is not reading and watching our fascinating works, so maybe we can cut people like Ehsan Masood and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (Ali Mazrui's series on African history is better) and Neil deGrasse Tyson a break if they slip up now and again. It discusses multiple causes of historical phenomenon and the predominant historiography and its dissenters.Īs in any work of history presented to the public, the academic academician, or even the humble ABD history student such as myself, can find weaknesses. It's excellent as a survey introduction to this topic in the history of science. Ehsan Masood (Twitter) produced a BBC documentary on Islam and science.
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