Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past oxford world's classics the history and transmission of

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won the National Book Award for fiction

Letter from the Editor

Professor Osman Bakar shows how these sciences are organically related to the fundamental teachings of Islam

The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book

Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past oxford world's classics the history and transmission ofIslam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa to South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been