Description
Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics at Surrey University. He’s also half-Iraqi, born in Baghdad and a fluent Arabic speaker. This series is Jim’s personal journey of exploration into the virtually unknown story of the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution from around 700 to 1250 AD. It turns out that our modern understanding of mathematics, optics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, engineering, cartography and cryptography all depend on the scholarship of medieval Islamic scientists. This was real science with real experiments backed by solid mathematics and was developed and nurtured in the medieval Islamic world.