Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004146970 ISBN 13 : 9789004146976

Editeur : Brill, 2006

Synopsis

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 medieval 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 encyclopædia. 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 'enyclopædic' 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerhard Endress, Ph.D.(1965) in Oriental Studies, University of Frankfurt, is Professor a the University of Bochum. Among his publications are "Proclus Arabus"(1973), "A Greek and Arabic Lexicon: materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic" (ed., with Dimitri Gutas, 1992), and "Islam: an historical introduction," 2nd edition (2002)."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004146970
• ISBN 13: 9789004146976
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Éditeur: Endress Gerhard
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible