03270nam 22006371 450 991045122940332120210721145055.01-281-39677-X978661139677090-474-0834-910.1163/9789047408345(CKB)1000000000405147(EBL)3004224(SSID)ssj0000216294(PQKBManifestationID)11912285(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216294(PQKBWorkID)10195318(PQKB)11246726(MiAaPQ)EBC3004224(Au-PeEL)EBL3004224(CaPaEBR)ebr10235015(CaONFJC)MIL139677(OCoLC)923614131(OCoLC)320326292(nllekb)BRILL9789047408345(EXLCZ)99100000000040514720210731d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOrganizing Knowledge Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World /edited by Gerhard EndressLeiden; Boston :BRILL,2006.1 online resource (256 p.)Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ;61Description based upon print version of record.90-04-14697-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ;61.Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic WorldEncyclopedias and dictionaries, ArabicHistory and criticismIslamic learning and scholarshipHistoryElectronic books.Encyclopedias and dictionaries, ArabicHistory and criticism.Islamic learning and scholarshipHistory.039/.92702.01bclEndress GerhardNL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910451229403321Organizing Knowledge2448132UNINA