Format:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781000987225
Series Statement:
Variorum Collected Studies
Content:
This book reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 'On the location of the ancient or 'rational' sciences in Muslim educational landscapes (AH 500-1100),' Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 4(1), 2002: 47-71. -- 2 'Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī on Muwaqqits, Mu'adhdhins, and the Teachers of Various Astronomical Disciplines in Mamluk Cities in the Fifteenth Century,' in (eds.) Emilia Calvo, Mercè Comes, Roser Puig, Mònica Rius, A Shared Legacy, Islamic Science East and West, Homage to Professor J.M. Millàs Vallicrosa, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions, 2008, 129-150. -- 3 'Ayyubid Princes and Their Scholarly Clients from the Ancient Sciences,' in Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 2010, 326-56. -- 4 'Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies: structure and rhetoric, identities, and outcomes,' in Eleanor Robson, Jackie Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 301-28. -- 5 'Courtly Patronage of the Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic Societies,' Al-Qanṭara: revista de estudios árabes, XXIX (2008), 403-436. -- 6 'The language of 'patronage' in Islamic societies before 1700,' Cuadernos del CEMYR 20 (2012), 11-22. -- 7 'The Study of Geometry According to al-Sakhāwī (Cairo, 15th c) and al-Muḥibbī (Damascus, 17th c),' in J. W. Dauben, S. Kirschner, A. Kühne, P. Kunitzsch and R. Lorch eds., Mathematics Celestial and Terrestrial, Festschrift for Menso Folkerts zum 65. Geburtstag. Acta Historica Leopoldina 54 (2008), 323-341. Halle/Saale: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
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Additional Edition:
9781032444970
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781032444970
Language:
English
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