Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, subtitled A Historical Journal, is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 published by Cambridge University Press

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. The journal deals with the history of Arabic science, mathematics and philosophy

Islamic philosophy

Islamic philosophy is a branch of Islamic studies. It is the continuous search for Hekma in the light of Islamic view of life, universe, ethics, society, and so on...

 between the 8th and the 18th centuries in a cross-cultural

Cross-cultural

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 context. It publishes original papers on the history of these disciplines as well as studies of the relations between Arabic sciences and philosophy, with Greek, Indian, Chinese

History of science and technology in China

The history of science and technology in China is both long and rich with many contributions to science and technology. In antiquity, independently of other civilizations, ancient Chinese philosophers made significant advances in science, technology, mathematics, and astronomy...

, Latin, Byzantine

Byzantine science

Byzantine science played an important role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy, and also in the transmission of medieval Arabic science to Renaissance Italy...

, Syriac

Syriac language

Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...

, and Hebrew

Jewish philosophy

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 sciences and philosophy. The journal was established in 1991 and is published twice a year.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

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, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature, and Scopus

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