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Ibn Al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity

Ibn Al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity

Rashed, Roshdi

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

Medieval & Renaissance HistorySports GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 30, 2026

ISBN10: 1032323493
ISBN13: 9781032323497
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.99
Language: English

Ibn al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity offers the first comprehensive monograph on one of the most brilliant figures of the medieval intellectual world.

Spanning his groundbreaking contributions in mathematics, optics, astronomy, and natural philosophy, this book portrays Ibn al-Haytham as he was seen in his own time: a man of universal learning whose methods, sources, and intellectual reputation resonated far beyond his era. Moving beyond the familiar terrain of his Kitāb al-Manāẓir (Book of Optics), it places his achievements in a much wider context, examining his lesser-studied writings on geometry, mechanics, and scientific method. Through a systematic analysis of these works, the book demonstrates how Ibn al-Haytham's experimental rigor, mathematical formalism, and critical engagement with earlier Greek and Arabic sources foreshadowed core principles of the European Scientific Revolution. It shows how his insistence on verification through observation and reasoning forged a distinctive approach that inspired thinkers from medieval Cairo to Renaissance Europe.

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