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The genius of their age : Ibn Sina, Biruni and the lost enlightenment / S. Frederick Starr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starr, S. Frederick, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scholars--Asia, Central--Biography.
- Scholars.
- Intellectuals--Asia, Central--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Asia, Central--Intellectual life.
- Asia, Central.
- Asia, Central--Civilization--Islamic influences.
- Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.
- Islamic Empire.
- Avicenna, 980-1037.
- Avicenna.
- Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048.
- Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Other Title:
- Ibn Sina, Biruni and the lost enlightenment
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- The Genius of Their Age provides an overview of the life and works of Ibn Sina and Biruni from Central Asia. Both thinkers achieved stunning breakthroughs in various fields, such as medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, geography and physics.
- Contents:
- Together and apart
- Privileged prodigies
- Promise and disruption
- Caught in the whirlwind
- Arguing Aristotle
- Inventing a world history
- From peace to chaos
- Nemesis : Mahmud of Ghazni
- Ibn Sina, encyclopedist
- Expanding the known world
- Ibn Sina's adventures
- Biruni's masterpiece
- The canon of medicine
- Biruni's canon for Masud
- The cure
- Biruni's encore
- Ibn Sina's encore
- Biruni and Ibn Sina through the ages
- Biruni and Ibn Sani, a millennium on.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 21, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-767558-1
- 0-19-767557-3
- 0-19-767556-5
- OCLC:
- 1396264166
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