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Mujaz fi Tarikh al-Ulum wa al-Maarif fi al-Hadharat al-Qadimah wa al-Hadhara al-Arabiyah al-Islamiyah ""A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE ANCIENT AND ARABIC-ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS"" by Taha Baqir. This book was written in Arabic by the late Iraqi archeologist and historian Taha Baqir. The book provides brief accounts of the mathematical and scientific achievements in the early civilizations of the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, Indians, Arabs and Muslims. The book maintains a friendly and readable Arabic style that appeals to both the public and the experts in the field.

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Taha Baqir was one of the most renowned Iraqi historians and archeologists. Since the 1940s, Baqir excavated and deciphered numerous mathematical, legal, and literary cuneiform tablets in Iraq. He discovered the 4000-year-old Laws of Eshnunna (preceding the famous Code of Hammurabi) and he translated the Epic of Gilgamesh directly from Akkadian to Arabic. Baqir authored numerous monumental articles and books. He was educated at the American University of Beirut and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Taha Baqir was born in Babylon 1912 and he died in Baghdad, Iraq in 1984. Among the cuneiform mathematical tablets that Taha Baqir excavated and published were: Db2-146 (or IM 67118), IM 52301, IM 53953, IM 53957, IM 53961, IM 53965, IM 54010, IM 54011, IM 54464, IM 54478, IM 54538, IM 54559, and IM 55357.

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