1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization

S.T.S. Al-Hassani · Sonja Brentjes

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The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization is the companion book to the exhibition '1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization' that ran from 3 August 2012 to 3 February 2013 under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, Washington DC, in cooperation with the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FTSC), Manchester.The difference in title between exhibition and book is significant and substantial.The exhibition claimed to focus on the long gone past.The book insists explicitly on the relevance of this past to today, in particular, to today's sciences and technologies.This third edition of 1001 Inventions has undergone a visible effort of moderation, alteration, and adaptation.I cannot judge, of course, whether this is also the case for the spirit of the exhibition, which its director, Prof. em.Salim al-Hassani, claimed is identical with the previous ones.The changes in the book concern aspects of political correctness, religious expressions, and various errors, great and small, of content and language.'Mankind', for instance, has been changed to 'humankind'.The constant repetition of 'pubh' ('peace be upon him') has been almost completely abolished.Claims such as 'the universal nature of Islam' were deleted.al-Kindi no longer appears as the head of a team appointed by Caliph al-Maʾmun for translating Aristotle's works.The often faulty English of the second edition has been improved somewhat, though there still remain phrases and sentence that are unidiomatic in English.The Arabic has not been not corrected and continues to suffer from numerous mistakes and different styles of transliteration, some of them apparently of South Asian origin, others derived from academic usage.So many gross errors have slipped through the nets of the two editorial teams of the National Geographic Society and the FTSC that I wonder

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