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  • Science and Islam (Icon Science)

    A History

    by Ehsan Masood ...
    Series series Icon Science
    Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Invention

    The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World

    by Ehsan Masood ...
    The world’s principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for, from libraries and road-line painting to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons.The Great Invention reveals how in just ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Science & Islam

    A History

    by Ehsan Masood ...
    From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Science and Islam tells the story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400 CE. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    GDP

    The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change

    by Ehsan Masood ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Gross Domestic Product is failing. For decades it has rewarded environmental destruction and obscured inequality. Its formula can be?and has been?gamed to the detriment of developing countries.In this powerfully argued book, now updated with a new chapter, science writer Ehsan Masood shows how GDP fell from the path envisaged by its architects, and how its long-term misapplication has kept large ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Destiny Disrupted

    A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

    by Tamim Ansary ...
    “A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the ... Read more

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  • Lost Islamic History

    Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

    by Firas Alkhateeb ...
    Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • Lost Enlightenment

    Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Islamic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Adam J. Silverstein ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic history; the controversies surrounding its study; and the significance that it holds - for Muslims and for non-Muslims alike. Opening with a lucid overview of the rise and spread of Islam, from the seventh to twenty first century, the book ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Oxford History of Islam

    Edited by John L. Esposito ...
    Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, has gathered together sixteen leading scholars, both ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • The Genius of Islam

    How Muslims Made the Modern World

    by Bryn Barnard ...
    The Middle Ages were a period of tremendous cultural and scientific advancement in the Islamic Empire—ideas and inventions that shaped our world.Did you know that:• The numbers you use every day (Arabic numerals!) are a Muslim invention?• The marching band you hear at football games has its roots in the Middle East?• You are drinking orange juice at breakfast today thanks to Islamic farming ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Science in Medieval Islam

    An Illustrated Introduction

    by Howard R. Turner ...
    A "well-organized and interesting" overview of science in the Muslim world in the seventh through seventeenth centuries, with over 100 illustrations ( The Middle East Journal).During the Golden Age of Islam, in the seventh through seventeenth centuries A. D., Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Muslim Inventions in the Islamic Golden Age 750-1500 AD

    by Aliya Anjum ...
    The age of globalization is posing serious challenges to the understanding of Islam. While no civilization can survive without understanding its own past, Muslims appear to be indifferent to it and therefore uncertain of the future. That is why I am grateful to Aliya Anjum for picking up the banner of scholarship and helping us to understand the Islamic past. I am particularly thrilled that she ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus