Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists Paperback – 17 Jun. 2008

Excellent book illustrating the enduring legacy of Islamic science. This book makes one realise just how much hogwash is spread negatively about Islam by so-called experts in Western Media. I urge everyone to read this book in order for people to realise just how much we owe to the Islamic World for saving Greek and Persian science and philosophy, advancing it, and then amalgamating with the science and philosophy from Indo-China. Quite a super-culture resulted from this.

in past many years, even though the electronic media has expanded tremendously and access to information has been made much easy still many like me have unwittingly learned our history from hollywood, which we all agree doesn't always portray the true picture. In a period when Islam is feared and muslims alienated and vigrously categorised into moderate and fundamentalists, writing a book about islamic or muslim achievements and contributions towards modern science is a bold step.The book is written by a non-muslim so it takes a lot of bias away plus the objection many readers could have made if islamic history was being praised by a muslim. its a well researched work and a few facts were so "lost" many muslims i have spoken to were not aware themselves. this book first came through my post box, curtesy of a friend and i read it few years ago. I bought this one for a friend as a gift. I have noticed that the popularity of the book has gone up since the prices has gone up as well. I gave it 5 star for the style, hard work and extensive details covered in such a short history book.another book to read is 1001 inventions but that is more like an encyclopaedia.

Bought it for a gift. Very pleased with the contents. Good easy reading.

good book

A must read book. I still open it every now and then and read excerpts of it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. An interesting read that compelled me to learn more

While Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages there was a flourishing of Science, Art and Religeon in the Arab/Muslim world. Please give this a read and it may suprise and enlighten you.

a great look at the different peoples and communities of note from the Muslim world

Nice book