Will the stars of Arab astronomy ever shine bright again? - The New Arab

Despite the Arab world's illustrious astronomical past, capitalism and colonialism's concentration of knowledge has left the region languishing behind. Saving a few spurts of innovation, much still needs to be done to reclaim its rightful status.

Most of the conventional literature on the history of Islamic astronomy focuses on tracing its influence on the development of astronomy and other sciences in the West while limiting the focus on the… [+7899 chars]

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