Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-1700).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brentjes, Sonja.

Series:

Studies on the Faculty of Arts. History and Influence E-Book

Studies on the Faculty of Arts. History and Influence E-Book ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching--Islamic countries--History.

Science.

Islam and science--History.

Islam and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Other Title:

Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, 2018.

Summary:

This book surveys teaching and learning in the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks also at developments in Iran, India, Anatolia, and Iraq. It discusses institutions of teaching and learning such as house and court teachers, madrasas, hospitals, in-family teaching, and travelling in search of knowledge, as well as the content of the various sciences taught by or at them. Methods of teaching and learning, teaching bestsellers and their geographical and temporal dissemination, as well as encyclopaedias and literature on the classification of the sciences are treated in further chapters.

Notes:

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ISBN:

2-503-57446-7

OCLC:

1061129914