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Studies in the Exact Sciences in Medieval Islam, by Ali A. Al-Daffa and John S. Stroyle. University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran; John Wiley & Sons, New York1984. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

David A. King
David A. King*
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New York University
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , December 1985 , pp. 243 - 245
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1985

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References

1 Nasr’s, S. H.Islamic Science is of value mainly for the plates: see my review of the section on the exact sciences in Journal for the History of Astronomy 9 (1978) 212–219Google Scholar, reprinted in Bibotheca Orientalis 35 (1978) 339–43.

2 See my review of the first book, The Muslim Contribution to Mathematics (Croom Helm, London; Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 1977), in History of Science 17 (1979) 295–96.