Organizing Knowledge : Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World / / edited by Gerhard Endress
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Organizing Knowledge : Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World / / edited by Gerhard Endress
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 039/.927 |
| Soggetto topico: | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic - History and criticism |
| Islamic learning and scholarship - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Classificazione: | 02.01 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | EndressGerhard |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Encyclopædic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Organizing Knowledge |
| ISBN: | 1-281-39677-X |
| 9786611396770 | |
| 90-474-0834-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451229403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; ; 61.