Organizing knowledge : : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world /

Organizing knowledge : : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / / editor, Gerhard Endress.

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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...

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Superior document:Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 61
TeilnehmendeR:
Endress, Gerhard, 1939-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Islamic philosophy, theology, and science 61.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Editor's Note
  • The Contributors
  • THE CONCEPT OF ENCYCLOPÆDIA
  • Encyclopædic Activities in the Islamic World: A Few Questions, and No Answers
  • THE ARABIC ISLAMIC TRADITIONS
  • Biographical Dictionaries as the Scholars' Alternative History of the Muslim Community
  • Encyclopædic Activities in Islamic Jurisprudence
  • THE IRANIAN AND GREEK TRADITIONS
  • The Greek and Persian Background of Early Arabic Encyclopedism
  • The Cycle of Knowledge: Intellectual Traditions and Encyclopædias of the Rational Sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism
  • Organizing Scientific Knowledge: The 'Mixed' Sciences in Early Classifications
  • The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ) and their Philosophical Treatises (Rasāʾil)
  • INTEGRATIVE CONCEPTS
  • Al-Qazwīnī's ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt: An Encyclopædia of Natural History?
  • L'Encyclopédisme dans l'historiographie: réflexions sur le cas d'Ibn Khaldūn
  • A EUROPEANIST'S PERSPECTIVE
  • A Europeanist's Perspective
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science.

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