A BRIEF SURVEY OF MUSLIM CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE AND CULTURE

CONTENTS Introduction ... ... ... 7 I. Cultivation of Medicine, Mathematics and Astronomy in the Abbasid Regime ... ... ... 12 II. Patronage at the Eastern Provincial Courts ... ... ... 24 III. Encouragement by the Fatimids IV. Work in other departments of 37 Knowledge ... ... ... 41 V. Belles-lettres, Religious Literature and Philosophy ... ... 55 VI. Early Arab notions of Chemistry, VII. VIII. IX. X. Biology and Allied Sciences ... 65 Mechanical Contrivances and Mili­ tary Science ... ... ... 72 Fall of Baghdad and Mongol res­ ponse to Islam ... ... 78 Arab Enterprise in Ifriqiyah, Siqil- liyah, and Andalusia, etc. ... 85 Transmission of Arab learning and Culture to Christian Europe ... 110