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

Delineates the two very different traditions of astronomy in medieval Islam: legal scholars watched the crescent moon to keep the calendar, and used shadows to

Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars

Many scientists have come to realize that science and religion can nurture each other. One example was the flowering of science in the first centuries of Islam.