1001 Inventions uncovers a thousand years of scientific and cultural achievements from Muslim Civilisation from the 7th century onwards, and how those contributions helped create the foundations of our modern world.
This fascinating book as a significant contribution to a wider understanding of science and technology within Muslim civilization, and of our debt in modern societies to this particular tradition. Within any particular culture, such as the western and Anglo-centric tradition, it is all too easy to forget or downpay the complex history of the development of scientific ideas and technological inventions. Science and technology, in some shape or form, exists, and develops within all types of societies and in the context of all shades of religious belief. Ultimately, it matters not exactly by whom, exactly when, a particular discovery or invention was made.
