Treasures of the Islamic scientific tradition

Some internet sources on the history of Islamic mathematics and astronomy:

Specialized Institutes

• Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Frankfurt
  Virtual tour of their museum with more than 800 replicas of medieval Islamic instruments (also in mathematics and astronomy).
• Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture in Istanbul

Newsletters

Newsletters are very useful as sources for information on recent research, and in order to identify people to make contact with. The following organizations have interesting newsletters on the web:

• Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Civilization
• Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy
• Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa

Bibliographies etc.

• Large bibliography on Islamic mathematics and astronomy. by Jeff Oaks.
• Selective bibliography on Islamic mathematics and astronomy until 1999. By Jan Hogendijk.
• (Almost) all the books and articles published before 1960 on history of Islamic mathematics and astronomy are listed in the Table of contents of 112 reprint volumes. These volumes were published by Fuat Sezgin in the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Provisional list of all astrolabes (mainly Islamic and medieval Europe) that were built before 900 H/1500 CE. By David King.
• Bibliography on the history of astrology. By David Juste.
• The Mathematical Reviews include more than 1100 reviews of books and articles on medieval Islamic mathematics. Choose Full Search and enter MSC primary code 01A30.

Medieval Islamic Science and Art

• Research project about muqarnas visualization, University of Heidelberg, Germany. By Yvonne Dold.
• Classification of muqarnas patterns (Shiro Takahashi)