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Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Islamic philosophy, theology, and science 0169-8729 ; v. 61.
- Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic--History and criticism.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic.
- Islamic learning and scholarship--History.
- Islamic learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 234 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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 mediaeval 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 'encyclopaedic' 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 of scholarly writing in the pre-modern Islamic world.
- Contents:
- The Concept of Encyclopaedia
- Encyclopaedic Activities in the Islamic World: A Few Questions, and No Answers / Josef van Ess 3
- The Arabic Islamic Traditions
- Biographical Dictionaries as the Scholars' Alternative History of the Muslim Community / Wadad al-Qadi 23
- Encyclopaedic Activities in Islamic Jurisprudence / Ridwan al-Sayyid 77
- The Iranian and Greek Traditions
- The Greek and Persian Background of Early Arabic Encyclopedism / Dimitri Gutas 91
- The Cycle of Knowledge: Intellectual Traditions and Encyclopaedias of the Rational Sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism / Gerhard Endress 103
- Organizing Scientific Knowledge: The 'Mixed' Sciences in Early Classifications / Elaheh Kheirandish 135
- The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') and their Philosophical Treatises (Rasa'il) / Mokdad Arfa 155
- Integrative Concepts
- Al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-makhluqat: An Encyclopaedia of Natural History? / Syrinx von Hees 171
- L'Encyclopedisme dans l'historiographie: reflexions sur le cas d'Ibn Khaldun / Abdesselam Cheddadi 187
- A Europeanist's Perspective
- A Europeanist's Perspective / Ann Blair 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004146970
- OCLC:
- 65207148
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004146976
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