BBC: Science and Islam – The Power of Doubt – Part 5

Part 4

How the Arabic/Muslim knowledge of Astronomy, Science and Math arrived in Europe and caused the Renaissance.

Part 6

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.

Al-Khalili turns detective, hunting for clues that show how the scientific revolution that took place in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe had its roots in the earlier world of medieval Islam.