Fuat Sezgin

Fuat Sezgin (1924–2018) was a Turkish historian of science and author who reconstructed the scope of Arabic-Islamic scholarship through manuscripts, instruments, and archival research. Science and Technology in Islam presents instruments and methods across astronomy, geography, and medicine, making practice central to intellectual history. The Arabic Writing Tradition, an Historical Survey follows the development and transmission of written scholarship. The Reception and Assimilation of Greek and Indian Science in Islam: Texts and Studies examines how knowledge was translated, tested, and transformed rather than simply preserved. Avicenna Latinus: The Reception and Assimilation of Ibn Sīnā in the West: Texts and Studies turns to the movement of Ibn Sīnā’s work into Latin learning. Science and Technology in Islam offers the broadest visual entry; the reception studies provide a denser route into Sezgin’s source-based method.