Islam at the Center: Technological Complexes and the Roots of Modernity

摘要: For prehistorians, the concept of "Neolithic toolkit" provides a means evaluating technological capacities world societies on cross-cultural basis. This article seeks to refi ne toolkit idea by distinguishing series complexes that, while originating in different regional contexts, became standardized over centuries lands Islam era before 1500 C.E. and subsequently diffused rest world. The focuses three case studies—the water management toolkit, writing information mathematics cosmology toolkit—in an effort explore reasons for apparent centrality Islamicate assembling these complexes.