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Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world

Title
  1. Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary.
Published by
  1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Endress, Gerhard, 1939-
  2. Filali-Ansary, Abdou.
Description
  1. xvii, 234 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "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 of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences."--Jacket.
Series statement
  1. Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 61
Uniform title
  1. Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 61.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1200-1700
  2. Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic > History and criticism
  3. Islamic learning and scholarship > History
  4. Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic
  5. Islamic learning and scholarship
  6. Arabisch
  7. Enzyklopädie
  8. Encyclopedieën
  9. Kennis
  10. Arabisch
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. The concept of encyclopædia. Encyclopædic activities in the Islamic world : a few questions, and no answers / Josef van Ess -- The Arabic Islamic traditions. Biographical dictionaries as the scholars' alternative history of the Muslim community / Wadad al-Qadi ; Encyclopædic activities in Islamic jurisprudence / Ridwan al-Sayyid -- The Iranian and Greek traditions. The Greek and Persian background of early Arabic encyclopedism / Dimitri Gutas ; The cycle of knowledge : intellectual traditions and encyclopædias of the rational sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism / Gerhard Endress ; Organizing scientific knowledge : the 'mixed' sciences in early classifications / Elaheh Kheirandish ; The Brethern of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafā') and their philosophical treatises (Rasā'il) / Mokdad Arfa -- Integrative concepts. Al-Qazwīnī's 'Ajā'ib al-makhlūqāt : an encyclopædia of natural history? / Syrinx von Hees ; L'encyclopédisme dans l'historiographie : réflexions sur le cas d'Ibn Khaldūn / Abdesselam Cheddadi -- A Europeanist's perspective / Ann Blair.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index.