BOOK REVIEW: `ILM: SCIENCE, RELIGION AND ART IN ISLAM Melanie Cooper – TAASA Review September 2020
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Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam Samer Akkach, ed.
University of Adelaide Press, 2019 RRP: $27.48 paperback and free ebook Scholars concerned with early modern studies have long acknowledged the profound impact of cross-cultural exchange and contact with non-Western cultures outside the urban centres of Europe.
However, there is much research yet to be done, and histories of encounters between different cultural groups have tended to focus on the uptake of new ideas from a dominant Western perspective...