The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of Europe and the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies.
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Middle East, Prophet's Medicine, Klaus Ferdinand, Middle Ages, Saudi Arabia, Cambridge University Press, New York, Central Asia, North Africa, Arab of the Desert, Edinburgh University Press, Hazar Jarib, Ibn Sina, Band-e Amir, Oxford Brookes University, Christian Europe, Richard Tapper, Princeton University Press, Hakluyt Society, Sir John Chardin, Abu Dhabi, Peter Simon Pallas, Oxford University Press, James Morier, Band-i Amir Browse Sample Pages:
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