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Understanding a historical period, process, or historical transformation has long been constructed primarily through events, political ruptures, and prominent individuals. Classical and positivist historiography shaped history largely as a chronological sequence of events centered around “great men”; space, by contrast, occupied a passive background role in these narratives. However, from the second half of the 20th century onward, new historiographical approaches revealed that space is not mere

In the historiography of science, Eurocentric narratives for a long historical period have evaluated scientific development as a linear and progressive trajectory extending from Ancient Greece to the European Renaissance. This approach confined the production of scientific knowledge to specific geographic and cultural centers, often positioning the Islamic scientific tradition as merely an intermediate stage responsible for transmitting ancient knowledge.George Saliba, How Did the Islamic Scient