Science and Islam will explore the extraordinary circumstances which created this revolution in scientific thinking, the places where they occurred as well as the scientists themselves and their achievements. The series will visit the great but seldom visited centres of medieval learning, libraries and fantastic buildings in Cairo, Damascus, Isfehan, Maragheh, Samarqand, Gurganj, Cordoba, and others and will begin to get inside the head of the medieval Islamic scientist and explore the turbulent history of the times.