The Science of Music: Knowledge Production in Medieval Baghdad and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Livre 57 sur 57: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh

 
9781009502542: The Science of Music: Knowledge Production in Medieval Baghdad and Beyond
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ISBN 10 : 1009502549 ISBN 13 : 9781009502542
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

How did the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition conceptualize, produce, and disseminate scientific knowledge? What can we learn about pre-modern Islamic civilizations from the way they examined and studied the universe? In answering these fundamental questions, Mohammad Sadegh Ansari provides a unique perspective for the study of both musicology and intellectual history. Widely considered to be an art today,music in the medieval Islamic world was categorized as one of the four branches of the mathematical sciences, alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy; indeed, some philosophers and scholars of music went as far as linking music with medicine and astrology as part of an interconnected web of cosmological knowledge. This innovative book raises fascinating questions about how designating music a 'science rather than an 'art' impacts our understanding of truth, and reconstructs a richly holistic medieval system of knowledge in the process.

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À propos de l?auteur

How did the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition conceptualize, produce, and disseminate scientific knowledge? What can we learn about pre-modern Islamic civilizations from the way they examined and studied the universe? In answering these fundamental questions, Mohammad Sadegh Ansari provides a unique perspective for the study of both musicology and intellectual history. Widely considered to be an art today,music in the medieval Islamic world was categorized as one of the four branches of the mathematical sciences, alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy; indeed, some philosophers and scholars of music went as far as linking music with medicine and astrology as part of an interconnected web of cosmological knowledge. This innovative book raises fascinating questions about how designating music a 'science rather than an 'art' impacts our understanding of truth, and reconstructs a richly holistic medieval system of knowledge in the process.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1009502549
ISBN 13 
9781009502542
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
246
Coordonnées du fabricant
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https://www.cambridge.org/

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