Routledge handbook on the sciences in the Islamicate societies : : practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries / / edited by Sonja Brentjes, Peter Barker, Rana Brentjes.
"The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century. Across six sections, a group of subject experts discuss and analyse scientific practices across a wide range of Islamicate societies....
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 837 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Late Antiquity, translating and the formation of the sciences in Islamicate polities (1st bh-7th/5th-13th centuries)
- I.1 Translation as an enduring and widespread cultural practice
- I.2 Multiple translation activities
- I.3 Translations in the mathematical sciences
- I.4 Translations of medical and occult texts into Arabic and Syriac and their contexts after 80/700
- I.5 Geometry and its branches
- I.6 The astral sciences through the 7th/13th century: Attitudes, experts and practices
- I.7 Algebra and arithmetic
- I.8 Optics: experiments and applications
- I.9 Automata and balances
- I.10 Medicine
- I.11 Natural philosophy
- I.12 Alchemy and the chemical crafts
- I.13 Geography and mapmaking
- I.14 Physiognomy: science of intuition
- I.15 The Hieroglyphic script deciphered? An Arabic treatise on ancient and occult alphabets
- I.16 Practices of Zoroastrian scholars before and after the advent of Islam
- I.17 Evaluating the past: scholarly views of ancient societies and their sciences
- Part II Scientific practices at courts, observatories and hospitals (2nd-13th/8th-19th centuries)
- II.1 The emergence of Persian as a language of science
- II.2 The emergence of a new scholarly language: the case of Ottoman Turkish
- II.3 Imperial demand and support
- II.4 The practice of pharmacy in later medieval Egypt
- II.5 Ottoman and Safavid health practices and institutions
- II.6 Planetary theory
- II.7 Practices of celestial observation in the Islamicate world
- II.8 The practical aspects of Ottoman maps
- II.9 Another scientific revolution: the occult sciences in theory and experimentalist practice.
- II.10 Arts, sciences and princely patronage at Islamicate courts (4th/10th-11th/17th centuries)
- II.11 Physiognomy (ʿilm-i firāset) and politics at the Ottoman court
- Part III Learning and collecting institutions - debates and methods (3rd-13th/9th-19th centuries)
- III.1 Libraries - beginnings, diffusion and consolidation
- III.2 Madrasas and the sciences
- III.3 Scientific matters in kalām (theology)
- III.4 Ashʿarite occasionalist cosmology, al-Ghazālī and the pursuit of the natural sciences in Islamicate societies
- III.5 The role of sense perception and experience (tajriba) in Arabic theories of science
- III.6 Logic: didactics and visual representations
- III.7 Medical commentaries
- III.8 Textual genres and visual representations in the astral sciences
- Part IV The materiality of the sciences (3rd-13th/9th-19th centuries)
- IV.1 The materiality of scholarship
- IV.2 Three-dimensional astronomy: celestial globes and armillary spheres
- IV.3 Projecting the heavens: astrolabes
- IV.4 Medical instruments
- IV.5 Alchemical equipment
- IV.6 Water and technology in the Islamicate world
- IV.7 Arts and sciences in the Islamicate world
- Part V Centers, regions, empires and the outskirts (3rd-113th/9th-19th centuries)
- V.1 Mathematical knowledge fields in the Islamicate world: similarities and differences
- V.2 Jewish mathematical activities in medieval Islamicate societies and border zones
- V.3 Patronage and the practice of astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib
- V.4 Anwāʾ and mīqāt in calendars and almanacs of the societies of al-Andalus and the far Maghrib
- V.5 Scholarly communities dedicated to the sciences in al-Andalus
- V.6 Post-Avicennan natural philosophy
- V.7 Cool and calming as the rose: pharmaceutical texts as tools of regional medical practices in early modern India.
- V.8 Medical practices and cross-cultural interactions in Persianate South Asia
- V.9 Premodern Ottoman perspectives on natural phenomena
- V.10 Scientific practices in sub-Saharan Africa
- V.11 Medical practices in Tibet in intercultural contexts
- V.12 Islamicate astral sciences in eastern Eurasia during the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- V.13 Collation and articulation of Arabo-Persian scientific texts in early modern China
- V.14 The multiplicity of translating communities in the Iberian Peninsula (12th-13th centuries)
- Part VI Encounters, conflicts, changes (4th-13th/10th-19th centuries)
- VI.1 Cross-communal scholarly interactions
- VI.2 Which is the right qibla?
- VI.3 Were philosophers considered heretics in Islam?
- VI.4 Systems of knowledge: debating organization and changing relationships
- VI.5 Embassies, trading posts, travelers and missionaries
- VI.6 The sciences in two private libraries from Ottoman Syria
- VI.7 13th/19th-century narratives and translations of science in the South Asian Islamicate world
- Consolidated Bibliography
- Index.