List of illustrations; New preface; Preface - 1993; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The comparative study of science; 2. Arabic science and the Islamic world; 3. Reason and rationality in Islam and the West; 4. The European legal revolution; 5. Madrasas, universities, and sciences; 6. Cultural climates and the ethos of science; 7. Science and civilization in China; 8. Science and social organization in China; 9. The rise of early modern science; Epilogue: educational reform and attitudes towards science since the eighteenth century; Selected bibliography; Index.
This 2003 book examines why modern science arose only in the West and not in other civilizations.
'Huff cogently substantiates how the underlying cultural values of a society and civilization assist or check scientific inquiry, and thus discloses modern science as an intercivilizational phenomenon.' Choice '... Huff provides a thorough, coherent hypothesis and thus helps sharpen the debates on the rise of modern science.' MESA Bulletin '... Huff's comparison of Catholic Europe, Islamic Asia, and Confucian China in terms of natural philosophy and educational institutions is timely and rewarding ...'. Benjamin Elman, American Journal of Sociology '... Huff's excellent book is a comparative study of the development of these exclusive commitments within the thoughts, institutions, and beliefs about the nature of existence and of man in the West, and of the contrasting consequences of the different commitments and beliefs of Islam and China. His scope is impressive.' A. C. Crombie, Journal of Asian Studies '... provides a definitive, albeit implicit, commentary on the thesis much beloved by some theologians that the Christian doctrine of creation was responsible for the rise of modern science...casts light on the general theme of the origins of modernity ... of sustained interest and full of copious reference to primary and secondary literature ...' Religious Studies '... essential reading ...'. Scientific and Medical Network Review
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