Revealed sciences : the natural sciences in Islam in seventeenth-century Morocco / Justin K. Stearns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stearns, Justin K., 1974- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Morocco--History--17th century.

Science.

Science--Middle East--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Demonstrating the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco, Revealed Sciences examines how the natural sciences flourished during this period, without developing in a similar way to the natural sciences in Europe. Offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between religious thought and the natural sciences, Justin K. Stearns shows how nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Middle Eastern scholars jointly developed a narrative of the decline of post-formative Islamic thought, including the fate of the natural sciences in the Muslim world. Challenging these depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world, Stearns uses numerous close readings of works in the natural sciences to a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in scholarly and educational landscapes of the Early Modern Magreb, and considers non-teleological possibilities for understanding a persistent engagement with the natural sciences in Early Modern Morocco.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-03866-4

1-009-03886-9

1-107-58852-9

OCLC:

1261265015