Organizing Knowledge
Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World
Published on 30. June 2006
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Hardback
238 pages
978-90-04-14697-6 (ISBN)
Description
The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of medieval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences.The volume begins with a general discussion of the concept of encyclopaedia. Successive chapters explore the bases of authority in the institutions of religion and law; biographical literature and handbooks of law; compendia of scientific and philosophical learning based on Iranian and Greek sources; and the more specialised expositions of mathematics and philosophy. The special character of Muslim institutions, their teaching traditions and syllabi is also put into perspective. This is a reference work for the principal genres of 'enyclopaedic' outlines and manuals - biography, legal handbooks, historiography of knowledge transmission, cosmography, and the philosophical sciences - and a major contribution to the literary and intellectual history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-14697-6 (9789004146976)
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Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World
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Gerhard Endress, Ph.D.(1965) in Oriental Studies, University of Frankfurt, is Professor a the University of Bochum. Among his publications are Proclus Arabus(1973), A Greek and Arabic Lexicon: materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic (ed., with Dimitri Gutas, 1992), and Islam: an historical introduction, 2nd edition (2002).