This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathemati

Contains many models of instruments collected by the Museum for the History of Islamic Science and Technology in Istanbul.

This book contains an edition—with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary—of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Josep

Recent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.

It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudiu