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266 • The Making of Islamic ScienceAzami, M. M. 1978. Studies in Early Hadith Literature. Indianapolis:American Trust Publications. A pioneering work on the evaluationof the smaller collections of Hadith antedating the six canonicalcollections, based on a Ph.D. thesis that has been called by Professor A.J. Arberry “the most exciting and original investigations in this field.”—. 2003. The History of the QurāĀnic Text: From Revelation to Compilation.Leicester: UK Islamic Academy. A remarkable work, one of the bestworks in English, on the history of the QurāĀnic text. It begins witha brief history of Islam and then details the coming into existenceof the QurāĀn—from its revelation to its compilation in the formof a book. Based on the early original sources, this work providesnumerous insights into the procedures through which the text of theQurāĀn was preserved.Bacon, Francis. 1905. The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon. John M.Robertson, ed. London: Routledge.Baljon, J. M. S. 1961. Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation, 1880-1960.Leiden: Brill.Banu Musa. ca. 9 th century, Kitab al-Hiyal. Translated in 1979 by DonaldHill as The Book of Ingenious Devices. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Thistranslation provides an opportunity to understand some of thelesser-known aspects of Islamic scientific tradition dealing withtechnological devices used by Muslims before the emergence ofmodern technology.Barbour, Ian. 2000. When Science Meets Religion. San Francisco:HarperSanFrancisco. An important work in the contemporaryreligion and science discourse. Barbour’s view of science and religionis, however, totally based on his particular Christian understandingof the issues. As such, his schema is applicable to a small segment ofthe science and religion discourse.—. 2002. “Response: Ian Barbour on Typologies.” Zygon, 37: 345–359.Berggren. J. L. 1986. Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. NewYork: Springer-Verlag. A major contribution to our understanding ofthe history of mathematics, with 97 figures and 20 plates.—. 1996. “Islamic Acquisition of the Foreign Sciences: A CulturalPerspective.” In Jamil Ragep and Sally Ragep, eds., Tradition,