Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

Index • 285caliphate 9-11, 157Canon of Medicine xxi, 98, 121, 123,243Cantor, Geoffery viiiCatching up syndrome 213causality 58, 61, 111, 232, 252China 144, 145Chittick, William C. 108, 110, 111Christianity viii, ix, 67-69, 76, 77, 79,83, 93, 119and science x, 65, 122, 161Cicero 130colonization xi, 77, 135, 152, 153, 155,158, 160, 185, 193Commission for Scientific Miracles ofQurāĀn and Sunnah 189Constantine the African 119Constantinople 156Copernicus 55, 125, 223cosmology 7–12, 29, 32, 36, 89–103,107–111, 146, 177, 190Aristotelian 30, 92, 94Peripatetic 97Sufi 108cotton 252creatio ex nihilo 88, 92creational-Biruni’s view 62, 101Aristotle’s view 21, 95criticized 199Mu‘tazilah and Asha‘irah view 32Qur’anic account 2, 5, 30, 58, 88-92scientific exegeses 177–182versus eternity 103–116Crusades xxxi, 128, 129DDamascus 10, 24, 46, 52, 54, 109, 269Dante Alighieri 130Dar al-Harb 163Darwin, Charles 73, 168, 177-83, 223,274Darwinism 168, 177-82Davidson, Herbert A. 104, 106Delhi xxvi, 108, 156, 164dîn 66, 70Dutch 130, 150EEast India Company 152Eaton, Charles Le Gai 165, 201Egypt 149, 151, 154, 179-81, 213, 216,218, 219Einstein 67, 198, 223Electra 130Empedocles 79essence, mâhiyyah 31, 92, 95, 98, 114,233, 242, 250Euclid 48, 97, 122evolution 73, 178, 180-83, 196, 206-8exegesis 109, 175, 176ex nihilo 32, 101Ffalasifa 121fatwa 82, 163, 214, 216Feingold 131, 132Fez 109fiqh 83Fuchs, Leonhart 134GGalen 14, 133, 246Galileo, Galilei ix, 65, 76, 79, 134, 173Generation and Corruption 240geography 7, 17, 29, 35-38, 41-45, 84,140, 156Balkhi School 40Islamic cartography 17, 37, 43geology 61, 62, 140, 177, 190Gerard of Cremona xxii, 45, 121, 123,243