BBC - Islam and Science 3: The Power of Doubt 6/6 - العلم في الاسلام

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.

Al-Khalili turns detective, hunting for clues that show how the scientific revolution that took place in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe had its roots in the earlier world of medieval Islam. He travels across Iran, Syria and Egypt to discover the huge astronomical advances made by Islamic scholars through their obsession with accurate measurement and coherent and rigorous mathematics.

He then visits Italy to see how those Islamic ideas permeated into the West and ultimately helped shape the works of the great European astronomer Copernicus, and investigates why science in the Islamic world appeared to go into decline after the 16th and 17th centuries, only for it to re-emerge in the present day.

Al-Khalili ends his journey in the Royan Institute in the Iranian capital Tehran, looking at how science is now regarded in the Islamic world.

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[Zackerybob]

wow, they'll never show you THAT about Iran on American news....

[bernoussi4ever]

Aasalam Alaikum Jazak Allah Khair

[0debug]

I recommend that people also should watch Jim Al-Khalili's other programs, "Atom" and "Chemistry: A Volatile History". I hope that his programs can inspire many people (regardless of faith) to learn more about science. And in particular, to get people to understand that in order to make scientific progress, there has to be a culture of free inquiry, free debate, and a posibility to question authority and dogma (religious, scientific, and other kinds) without punishment.