From his position as a distinguished scholar at the Carnegie Institution in New York for the years 2009-2011, and as a professor of Arabic and Islamic sciences at Columbia University for more than thirty years, and a distinguished professor at the Kellogg Center at the US Library of Congress for the years 2005-2006, and from his vast and rich experience, Dr. George Saliba from Lebanon writes a book entitled "Islamic Sciences and the Rise of the European Renaissance." In this book, George Saliba returns the discussion about the emergence of sciences in Islamic civilization to the origins, that is, to the scientific sources themselves that were the foundation of this heritage in the first place, and the historical sources that also contributed to explaining its emergence.