Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-eighteenth Century Islamic World
- ISBN-10
- 9004146970
- ISBN-13
- 9789004146976
- Series
- Organizing Knowledge
- Category
- Social Science / Islamic Studies
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Authors
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Gerhard Endress
Description
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 mediæval 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 of scholarly writing in the pre-modern Islamic world.
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