George Saliba sheds light on the Islamic Golden Age

Dr. George Saliba is professor of Arabic and Islamic Science in the department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Dr. Saliba is considered one of world’s leading authorities on the history of Arabic and Islamic Science. He is the author of Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality (2014) and Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (2007).
“Historical and Contemporary Muslim Engagements with Science,” Monday, October 5, 2015 - Hampshire College
The Muslim world is currently going through enormous changes. This is not entirely surprising, as more than half the population in the Middle East, and in much of the larger Muslim world, is under the age of 25. This is also the first generation to have been fully affected by the spread of mass education in the region and the global technological revolution of the past two decades. It is therefore not a leap to predict that this generation will interpret Islam and shape its relation to the modern world for decades to come, and that these interpretations will be influenced by global concerns and technological developments.