An Arabian physician cauterises a wound on a patient's neck. Professor Jim Al Khalili says many people in the Arab world are ignorant of their ancestors' scientific achievements. Bettmann / Corbis
An Arabian physician cauterises a wound on a patient's neck. Professor Jim Al Khalili says many people in the Arab world are ignorant of their ancestors' scientific achievements. Bettmann / Corbis

Books

Professor advocates higher profile for Arab science

Abu Dhabi International Book Fair: Jim Al-Khalili says the great thinkers of the early Islamic era deserve to be as revered and familiar as Galileo.

John Henzell

April 23, 2013

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