In The Shadows of Glories Past

Name: In The Shadows of Glories Past
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

In The Shadows of Glories PastJihad for Modern Science in Muslim Societies, 1850 to The Arab Spring\nAuthor(s): John W. Livingston\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367592851, 978-0367592851\nSynopsis\nThe title of this volume implies two things: the greatness of the scientific tradition that Muslims had lost, and the power of the West, in whose threatening shadow reformers now labored to modernize in order to defend themselves against those very powers they were taking as models. Copernicus and Darwin were the names that dominated the debate on science, whose arguments and rebuttals were published mainly in the religious and secular journals in Cairo and Beirut from the 1870s. Analysis and interpretation of this literature shows the hope that Arab reformers had of duplicating the Japanese success, followed by the despair when success was denied. \n\nA cultural malaise festered from generations of despair, defeat.