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Part I  Copernicus, Darwin and Islamic intellectual reform in Muslim societies during the last half of the 19th century 1 The Ottomans: Absolutist state reformers versus Young Ottoman constitutionalists 2 Post Muhammad Ali reform: Khedive Ismail and Ali Mubarak’s Dar al-Ulum and Rawdat al-Madaris 3 Beirut: the American College and the popularization of science 4 Muqtataf, Rawdat al-Madaris and the Fikri treatise on a moving earth 5 Darwin between Muqtataf and the American evangelists 6 From Copernicus to Darwin 7 Shibli Shumayyil’s Darwin: a theory for everything progressive 8 Scientific Interpretation: Shaykh Husayn al-Jisr and Darwin 9 Darwin between Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Natcheriyya and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani’s refutation 10 Muhammad Abduh 11 Abduh’s legacy Part II Science, society and government in the modern Muslim world 12 Overview of the 20th century 13 Darwin at the center of debate 14 Inverse appropriation: science by Quran 15 Scientific Interpretation 16 Scientific Interpretation and evolution 17 The place of Al-Azhar and the ulema 18 Science and the contemporary state 　Epilogue Index