Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-170), by Sonja Brentjes

(First paragraph) Studies on science in Islamic societies have been on the rise for a while. The book in question takes as its subject the learning and teaching of the sciences in Islamic (or “Islamicate,„ as the author adopts Marshall Hodgson´s conceptualization) societies prior to the eighteenth century. It is penned by Sonja Brentjes, who has written extensively on various aspects of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies. Her book is not a comprehensive account but rather “an erratic process, broken by many gaps and interrupted by too many questions I could not answer or perhaps not even ask,„ but it should also be added that she skillfully engages with the large number of primary and secondary sources.