Saliba is currently the founding director of the Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy and the Jabre-Khwarizmi Chair in the History Department.

[3] His book Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance has been published in multiple languages including Arabic, English, and Turkish.

The transmission of the astronomical traditions of India and ancient Greece within the new Muslim civilization provided the opportunity to subject these sciences to more rigorous analysis.

[...] This critical work resulted in a separation of astronomy and astrology, primarily because the latter dealt with metaphysical questions [...] which came in one way or another into conflict with the religious dogma of Islam.

Due to the close dependence of astrology on the observations and mathematical calculations of astronomy, the boundaries between the two disciplines became extremely blurred in the eyes of laymen.

Thus a document attributed to the eldest of the brothers Banou Moussa mathematically demonstrated the non-existence of a ninth orb supposed to explain the diurnal movement of the stars10.

The models proposed mainly in the eastern part of the Arab world, in what is called the Maragha school, with the astronomers Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi and Ibn al-Shatir for example, retain the principle of a rotating sun around the earth12.