This book comprising two parts is a pioneering research work in the fertile but
little explored field of Indo-Arab cultural and intellectual interaction as well
as history of science and civilization. It has been substantially brought out in
the first part that India has been the teacher of the Arabs and through them of
the entire world in such diverse subjects of studies as mathematics, astronomy,
medicine and wisdom literature.The role of Arabs in preserving and enriching
scientific knowledge of the world, leading to renaissance of the West has also
been properly highlighted on the basis of both original and secondary sources.
The second part of the