Talk:History of science in the Islamic World

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Article is good, but i feelt that the Historiography of Islamic science section needs a few pro-Islamic sience quotes to avoid being unbalanced. I dont have any such at hand, so ill settle with puting up a sign. Peace. --Striver 12:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I think you might find something of the sort you're looking for in the writings of S. H. Nasr, which I don't have at hand either. Nasr argues that there is something in Islamic culture that conditions a particular approach to science, especially the interest in mathematics. A passage from his Science and Civilization in Islam that I used to use in teaching says "... one can already see why mathematics was to make such a strong appeal to the Muslim: its abstract nature furnished the bridge that Muslims were seeking between multiplicity and unity." As I read Nasr, the Muslim monotheistic emphasis upon the divine one led them to a mathematical approach as they sought to understand the multiplicity of created nature. --SteveMcCluskey 02:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I found it on the web, and added a quotation from Nasr. I think I'll remove your template. --SteveMcCluskey 02:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)