Article ID: CBB710113949

White supremacism and Islamic astronomy in history of astronomy texts from the eighteenth century to the present day (2018)

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This paper reviews manifestations of racism in European and American histories of Arab and Persian astronomy from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its first section discusses representation of Islamic astronomy from Adam Smith to late Victorian writers, particularly tracing ideas of Arab unoriginality and scientific incapacity. The second section first relates the appearance of scientific racism in the early twentieth-century historiography of astronomy, then how the rise of scientifically and linguistically competent scholarship in the latter twentieth century provided much-improved information on Islamic achievements in astronomy. The paper’s conclusion underlines the importance of avoiding ethnic supremacism and integrating research on Islamic astronomy into teaching and publishing on the history of astronomy.

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Authors & Contributors
Mullaney, Thomas Shawn
McMahon, Richard
Pedro Augusto
Dent, Rosanna
Banta, Joshua Alexander
Barragan, Carlos Andres
Concepts
Science and race
Ethnicity
Anthropology
Colonialism
National histories
Physical anthropology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
Places
United States
Europe
China
Mato Grosso (Brazil)
Madeira (Portugal)
Arabian peninsula
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