Unlike medical literature today, which is specialized, in the medieval Islamic world it was integrated with natural science, astrology, alchemy, religion, philosophy and mathematics.

But medieval Muslim thinkers took the weird stuff as seriously as anything that fed into modern science. It's hard to avoid comparisons between Islam and Christianity.

Averroës, a medieval Muslim philosopher, “identified the real world with the directly observable and concrete,” the historian A.C. Crombie wrote (a view shared by William of Ockham, famous ...

Ancient, closely held religious secrets; messages encoded on the walls of Middle Eastern shrines; the divine golden ratio—readers of a recent issue of the journal Science must have wondered if ...

"The Language Of Science" airs Wednesday, June 13 at 11 p.m. - Its legacy is tangible, with terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali all being Arabic in origin and at the very heart of modern ...

Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians ...

Medieval Islamic patterns: Penrose, ... Chris writes for Ars Technica's science section. A physicist by day and science writer by night, he specializes in quantum physics and optics.

Knowledge was treasured in the medieval Muslim ... So celebrating the millennial anniversary of Ibn al-Haytham’s optics should be viewed as a celebration of all Arabo-Islamic science and the ...

The swirling Arabesque ceramic tiles used in medieval Islamic mosaics and architecture were produced using geometry not understood in the West until the 1970s.

Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred "parent" tombs hosting subclusters of emanating burials.

How Early Islamic Science Advanced Medicine. The growth of Islam in the seventh century sparked a golden age of scientic discovery. Building on the wisdom of ancient civilizations, Muslim doctors ...