Pathfinders

Here is a great book on Islam and science. I perused through it, and boom: found a passage that talks about how Greeks were busy with science but Byzantium Empire wasnt. Frankly I am quite tired of being right on this issue: Romans, Byzantium and Ottomans represent a dark chapter in human history whose ill-effects persist even today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8048372/Pathfinders-The-Golden-Age-of-Arabic-Science-by-Jim-al-Khalili-review.html