In:
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Brill, Vol. 5, No. 1 ( 2017), p. 1-27
Abstract:
This paper raises the question as to what role teaching (teachers, teaching material, orality, students) played in intellectual activities and the codification of those activities into texts and manuscripts with respect to the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy in third/ninth-century Baghdad. This issue is approached via the question of how extant works of that period, which are predominantly seen by modern historians of science either as translations or as newly composed research works, can be identified as having had a teaching function. The question of relevance, organization, and content of teaching in the highly innovative context of the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy of the third/ninth century is historiographically significant beyond the recovery of historical details about texts and their character.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2212-9421
,
2212-943X
DOI:
10.1163/2212943X-00501001
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
2017
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2735792-2
SSG:
6,23
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