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Alok Kumar
Coauthor of A History of Science in World Cultures: Voices of Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), from which article was adapted, Kumar is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of physics at the State University of New York, Oswego.
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Islamic Science's India Connection
Mutual belief in the idea of a universal order drew Muslim scholars to Indus Valley knowledge, and their translations advanced the trans-civilizational endeavor we today call science.