In the Shadows of Glories Past: Jihad for Modern Science in Muslim Societies, 1850 to the Arab Spring

This volume reveals the undermining effect of European imperialism on western-oriented religious reformers and secular intellectuals, for whom science and political reform went together, and concludes with a chapter on the state of science in contemporary Muslim societies and the efforts to institutionalize science (before the upheavals of 2011)

John W. Livingston is Associate Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.