Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt

<p>This book helps situate a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life<br>sciences: the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood a prerequisite for William<br>Harvey's fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. By revealing<br>the social religious philosophical and medical contexts of this discovery the book<br>illuminate the intricate ways in which science and religion interacted in the medieval<br>Islamic world. As such it provides a new framework with which to challenge the<br>oft-repeated but incorrect assertion that science came to a standstill within the<br>Islamic world due to religious antagonism.</p> <p> </p>