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272 • The Making of Islamic Sciencethe West. Cambridge: University of Cambridge. An often-quoted workwhich attempts to show that there is something inherently wrongwith Islam, and that therefore it could not have produced science. Atypical orientalist approach which attempts to deconstruct Islam andits tradition of learning.Ibn Kathir. reprint 1998. Tafsir ul-QurāĀn al-‘Azim, Sami b. Muhammadas-Salamah, ed. 8 vols. Riyad: Dar Tayyibah. This is one of the majorcommentaries of the QurāĀn, written in the fourteenth century, andstill widely used.Al-Kindi, Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq. On First Philosophy (fi al-Falsafah al-Ula).Translated by Alfred L. Ivry, Albany: State University of New YorkPress. This book provides a good insight into al-Kindi’s philosophythrough a representative work.Jansen, J. J. G. 1974. The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt.Leiden: Brill. A general survey of QurāĀn scholarship in Egypt.Mardin, Serif. 2000. The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought: A Study in theModernization of Turkish Political Ideas. Syracuse: Syracuse UniversityPress.Ibn al-Nadim. Tr. 1970. Al-Fihrist. Translated by Bayard Dodge as TheFihrist. Cambridge: Columbia University Press. One of the bestsources of information on a wide range of subjects, Ibn NadimFihrist remains a major reference work on various aspects of Islamictradition of learning—from authors to biographies to subject areas.Ibn Rushd, Abu al-Waleed Muhammad. Tr. 1954. Tahafut al-Tahafut(The Incoherence of the Incoherence). Translated from the Arabic withIntroduction and Notes by Simon van den Bergh, 2 vols. London:Luzac. A key work for Islam and science discourse, Ibn Rushd hererefutes al-Ghazali’s major work, The Incoherence of Philosophers.Ibn Rushd, Abu al-Waleed. 1959. Kitab fasl al-maqal, Arabic text, editedby George F. Hourani. Leiden: Brill. Often cited as a proof of Islam’ssupposed antagonistic attitude toward natural sciences in secondaryworks, this important book by Ibn Rushd is actually concernedwith investigating “parentage” (ittisal) between Islamic religious law(shariah) and wisdom.Ibn Sina. Tr. 1930. The Canon of Medicine. A treatise on the Canon of