Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam
Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science
Published on 25. May 2022
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-90-04-51314-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe's appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage.
Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.
Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51314-3 (9789004513143)
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Giovanna Lelli, PhD in Iranian Studies (I.U.O. Naples, 2000), is a researcher at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Among her publications are Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam. An aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun (Routledge, 2021).
Content
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Giovanna Lelli
1 Science in Islam and Classical Modernity
?Roshdi Rashed
2 Physics and Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic Period: A Conceptual Survey
?Hossein Masaoumi Hamedani
3 Ibn al-Haytham: between Mathematics and Physics
?Roshdi Rashed
4 La musique parmi les sciences dans les textes arabes medievaux
?Anas Ghrab
5 Traditional and Modern Science in an Age of Transition: ?Ali Mu?ammad I?fahani and the Logarithm of Numbers
?Zeinab Karimian
6 Formalism and Language in the Beginnings of Arabic Algebra
?Marouane ben Miled
7 Art and Mathematics, Two Different Paths to the Same Truth
?Patricia Radelet-de Grave
8 The Pre-history of the Principle of Relativity
?Patricia Radelet-de Grave
9 Intersections between Social and Scientific Thought: The Notion of mu?abaqa in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldun
?Giovanna Lelli
10 Arabic Medicine in China: Content and Context
?Paul D. Buell
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Giovanna Lelli
1 Science in Islam and Classical Modernity
?Roshdi Rashed
2 Physics and Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic Period: A Conceptual Survey
?Hossein Masaoumi Hamedani
3 Ibn al-Haytham: between Mathematics and Physics
?Roshdi Rashed
4 La musique parmi les sciences dans les textes arabes medievaux
?Anas Ghrab
5 Traditional and Modern Science in an Age of Transition: ?Ali Mu?ammad I?fahani and the Logarithm of Numbers
?Zeinab Karimian
6 Formalism and Language in the Beginnings of Arabic Algebra
?Marouane ben Miled
7 Art and Mathematics, Two Different Paths to the Same Truth
?Patricia Radelet-de Grave
8 The Pre-history of the Principle of Relativity
?Patricia Radelet-de Grave
9 Intersections between Social and Scientific Thought: The Notion of mu?abaqa in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldun
?Giovanna Lelli
10 Arabic Medicine in China: Content and Context
?Paul D. Buell
Index