History of Science

HDS 3340: Communities of Knowledge: Science, Religion and Culture in Medieval Europe and Islam

Instructors: Ahmed Ragab and Katharine Park

How did people understand nature in the Middle Ages? Is “premodern science” a contradiction in terms? What does it mean for science to be “religious”? How did medieval “Western” and “Islamic” civilization differ? Where and in what ways did they interact, and how did knowledge circulate between them?... Read more about HDS 3340: Communities of Knowledge: Science, Religion and Culture in Medieval Europe and Islam