Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection

by Nahyan Fancy

Book Overview

This book helps situate a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life
sciences: the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood, a prerequisite for William
Harvey's fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. By revealing
the social, religious, philosophical and medical contexts of this discovery, the book
illuminate the intricate ways in which science and religion interacted in the medieval
Islamic world. As such, it provides a new framework with which to challenge the
oft-repeated, but incorrect, assertion that science came to a standstill within the
Islamic world due to religious antagonism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041562200X
• ISBN13: 9780415622004
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"