This book provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century.

Introduction Part 1: Late Antiquity, translating and the formation of the sciences in Islamicate polities (1st BCH-7th/5th-13th centuries) 1.1. Translation as an enduring and widespread cultural practice 1.2. Multiple translation activities 1.3. Translations in the mathematical sciences 1.4. Translations in medicine and the occult sciences into Arabic and Syriac and their contexts after 80/700 1.5. Geometry and its branches 1.6. The astral sciences until the end of the Ilkhanid dynasty: Attitudes, experts and practices 1.7. Algebra and arithmetic 1.8. Optics: experiments and applications 1.9. Automata and balances 1.10. Medicine 1.11. Natural philosophy 1.12. Alchemy and the chemical crafts 1.13. Geography and mapmaking 1.14. Physiognomy: science of intuition 1.15. The Hieroglyphic script deciphered? An Arabic treatise on ancient and occult alphabets 1.16. Practices of Zoroastrian scholars before and after the advent of Islam 1.17. Evaluating the past: scholarly views of ancient societies and their sciences Part 2: Scientific practices at courts, observatories and hospitals (2nd/8th-13th/19th centuries) 2.1. The emergence of Persian as a language of science 2.2. The emergence of a new scholarly language: the case of Ottoman Turkish 2.3. Imperial demand and support 2.4. The practice of pharmacy in later medieval Egypt 2.5. Ottoman and Safavid health practices and institutions 2.6. Planetary theory 2.7. Practices of celestial observation 2.8. The practical aspects of Ottoman maps 2.9. Another Scientific Revolution: the occult sciences in theory and experimentalist practice 2.10. Arts, sciences and princely patronage at Islamicate courts (4th-11th/10th-17th centuries) 2.11. Physiognomy (¿ilm-i firaset) and politics at the Ottoman court Part 3: Learning and collecting institutions - debates and methods (3rd/9th-13th/19th centuries) 3.1. Libraries - beginnings, diffusion and consolidation 3.2. Madrasas and sciences 3.3. Scientific matters in kalam ('theology') 3.4. Ash¿arite occasionalist cosmology, al-Ghazali and the pursuit of the natural sciences in Islamicate societies 3.5. The role of sense perception and "experience" (tajriba) in Arabic theories of science 3.6. Logic: didactics and visual representations 3.7. Medical commentaries 3.8. Literary genres and visual representations in the astral sciences Part 4: The materiality of the sciences (3rd/9th-13th/19th centuries) 4.1. The materiality of scholarship 4.2. Three-dimensional astronomy: celestial globes and armillary spheres 4.3. Projecting the heavens: astrolabes 4.4. Medical instruments 4.5. Alchemical equipment 4.6. Water and technology in the Islamicate world 4.7. Arts and sciences in the Islamicate world Part 5: Centers, regions, empires and the outskirts (3rd/9th-13th/19th centuries) 5.1. Mathematical knowledge fields in the Islamicate world: similarities and differences 5.2. Jewish mathematical activities in medieval Islamicate societies and border zones 5.3. Patronage and the practice of astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib 5.4. Anwä and miqat in calendars and almanacs of the societies of al-Andalus and the Extreme Maghrib 5.5. Scholarly communities dedicated to the sciences in al-Andalus 5.6. Post-Avicennan natural philosophy 5.7. Cool and calming as the rose: pharmaceutical texts as tools of regional medical practices in early modern India 5.8. Medical Practices and Cross-Cultural Interactions in Persianate South Asia 5.9. Pre-Modern Ottoman perspectives on natural phenomena 5.10. Scientific practices in sub-Saharan Africa 5.11. Medical practices in Tibet in inter-cultural contexts 5.12. Islamicate astral sciences in eastern Eurasia during the Mongol-Yuan dynasty (1271- 1368) 5.13. Collation and articulation of Arabo-Persian scientific texts in early modern China 5.14. The multiplicity of translating communities on the Iberian Peninsula Part 6: Encounters, conflicts, changes (4th-13th/10th-19th centuries) 6.1. Cross-communal scholarly interactions 6.2. Which is the right qibla? 6.3. Were philosophers considered heretics in Islam? 6.4. Systems of knowledge: debating organization and changing relationships 6.5. Embassies, trading posts, travelers and missionaries 6.6. The sciences in two private libraries from Ottoman Syria 6.7. 13th/19th-century narratives and translations of science in the South Asian Islamicate world Consolidated Bibliography