Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science Roshdi Rashed

The Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, edited by Roshdi Rashed in collaboration with Régis Morelon, is a seminal three-volume work providing an authoritative, up-to-date synthesis of the Arab world’s seven-century contribution to science, mathematics, and technology. It documents how Arab scholars not only preserved but critically challenged and advanced Hellenistic, Indian, and Persian scientific traditions. The volumes are systematically organized, covering Astronomy, Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, and Technology, Alchemy, and the Life Sciences. Written by an international team of specialists, this resource restores Arabic science to its rightful place as a fundamental and original phase in the history of global science, detailing its marked influence on the European Middle Ages.