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Part II - Summary
Research into Islamic science and technology is still in its early stages, but there is now sufficient material available for a preliminary study. Volume IV is intended to fill a gap which deserves a major multi-volume work.
Part II deals with agricultural science, alchemy, chemistry and chemical technology, mining and metallurgy, military technology, textiles and manufacturing industries, mechanical technology, civil engineering, navigation and ship-building, medicine and pharmacy. Historians of Islamic science tend to limit their studies to the period up to the 16th century but, Part II of this volume also deals with the continuation of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire, India and Iran.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART II
IV : Technology
and Applied Sciences
Chapter 4.1.
Agricultural
science
Andrew M. Watson
Chapter 4.2.
Alchemy, chemistry and chemical
technology
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
Chapter 4.3.
Mining
and metallurgy
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
Chapter 4.4.
Military fires, gunpowder and
firearms
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
Chapter 4.5.
Textiles
and other manufacturing industries
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
Chapter 4.6.
Mechanical technology
Donald R. Hill
Chapter 4.7.
Civil engineering
Donald R. Hill
Chapter 4.8.
Navigation and ship-building
Hikmat Homsi
Chapter 4.9.
Military technology
Donald R. Hill
Chapter 4.10.
The Engineers
and artisans
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
V: Medicine and
Pharmacy
Chapter 5.1.
Medical institutions, education and
specialization
Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
Chapter 5.2.
Anatomy, physiology and the
study of the causes of disease (aetiology)
Ghada Karmi
Chapter 5.3(a)
Clinical diagnosis, fevers and
dietetics
Ghada Karmi
Chapter 5.3(b).
Obstetrics and gynaecology up to the end of the fifteenth
century
Aykut Kazancigil
Chapter 5.3(c)
History
of paediatrics
Mahmud al-Hajj Qasim Muhammad
Chapter 5.3(d)
Psychiatry
and neurology – Psychosomatic medicine
Sleim Ammar
Chapter 5.4.
Surgery
Serge Catahier
Chapter 5.5(a)
Ophthalmology in Islam
Sami K. Hamarneh and Nash'at Hamarneh
Chapter 5.5(b)
Ear, nose and throat diseases
Serge Catahier
Chapter 5.5(c)
Dentistry
Ilter Uzel
Chapter 5.6.
Pharmacy and materia medica
Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
VI: Science,
Medicine and Technology (after the 16th century)
Chapter 6.1.
Science and technology
in the Ottoman empire
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Chapter 6.2.
Science
and technology in India during the Mughal period ( A brief survey of
developments)
Abd al-Rahman
Chapter 6.3.
Science in Iran in the last
four centuries
Hossein M. Hamedanee
Epilogue
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
and Antoine. B. Zahlan
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