‘A fascinating and user-friendly guide to this whole scientific movement.’ ---- Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
‘Engrossing and revelatory…entertaining, insightful and important, you can’t fail to benefit from reading this.’ ---- Steven Pinker, BBC Focus
‘A reliable, readable, and informative account of medieval Arab science. He has brought a great story out of the shadows’ ---- Robert Irwin, Literary Review
‘Brings alive the bubbling invention and delighted curiosity of the Islamic world…his command of Arabic mathematical physics invests his story with sympathy as well as authority’ ---- Time Radford, Guardian
‘Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to a wider audience not just the facts of science but its history…Just as the legacy of Copernicus and Darwin belongs to all of us, so does that of Ibn Sina and Ibn al-Haytham. To think otherwise, as this book so powerfully reveals, is to do disservice to the tradition to which they belong.’ ---- Kenan Malik, Independent