Religion: Islamic science fading before colonialism
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Religion and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science
Using information on thousands of books written in the medieval Islamic world, I document a sustained decline in innovative intellectual production starting in the 12th century CE. I show that this decline coincides with an increase in the percentage of books dedicated to religious topics and in the proportion of authors employed in religious occupations. These findings are consistent with hist...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/448864b