The Origins of Islamic Science Dr. Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg * 1
| 2 | 3 | Next Table of contents 1. The Ancient Sciences and the
Arabs 1.2. Ancient Egypt 1.3. The Greek legacy 1.4. Various
influences in Pre-Islamic Arabia 1.5. The First Occurrences
(Awa'il) 2. Islam as a Source of Inspiration for Science and
Knowledge ('Ilm) 2.1. The Rise of Islam and the Early
Intellectual Fertilisation 2.2. The Islamic Background to
Intellectual Activity 2.3. Unity of Knowledge: Religious,
Rational and Experimental 2.4. Maurice Bucaille's Theses 3. The
Seeds of Islamic Science 3.1. Some Chronology 3.2. Defining
Islamic Science 4. Translation as a Source of Knowledge 5.
Islamic Science or Arabic Science 8. Alchemy and Chemistry 11.
Notes and References Note of the editor This article is part of
Essays on the Origins of Islamic Civilization, available from
Kube Publishing Ltd., Markfield, Ratby Lane, Leicestershire, LE
67 9SY, UK (ISBN 0954188292). * * *1. The Ancient Sciences and
the Arabs At the beginning of the 7th centur