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Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world /
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 mediaeval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Colección: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ;
v. 61. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Editor's Note
- The Contributors
- The Concept of Encyclopaedia
- Encyclopadeic Activities in the Islamic World: A Few Questions, and No Answers
- The Arabic Islamic Traditions
- Biographical Dictionaries as the Scholars' Alternative History of the Muslim Community
- Encyclopaedic Activities in Islamic Jurisprudence
- The Iranian and Greek Traditions
- The Greek and Persian Background of Early Arabic Encyclopedism
- The Cycle of Knowledge: Intellectual Traditions and Encyclopaedias of the Rational Sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism
- Organizing Scientific Knowledge: The 'Mixed' Sciences in Early Classifications
- The Brethen of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') and Their Philosophical Treatises (Rasa'il)
- Integrative Concepts
- Al-Qazwini's 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat: An Encyclopaedia of Natural History?
- L'encyclopedisme dans l'historiographie: Reflexions sur le cas d'Ibn Khaldun
- A Europeanist's Perspective.