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Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 61.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006Description: xvii, 234 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9004146970
  • 9789004146976
Other title:
  • Organising knowledge
  • Organising knowledge : Encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 039.927 22
LOC classification:
  • AG10.55 .O74 2006
Contents:
Encyclopaedic activities in the Islamic world : a few questions, and no answers / Josef van Ess -- Biographical dictionaries as the scholars' alternative history of the Muslim community / Wadad al-Qadi -- Encyclopaedic activities in Islamic jurisprudence / Ridwan al-Sayyid -- The Greek and Persian background of early Arabic encyclopedism / Dimitri Gutas -- The cycle of knowledge : intellectual traditions and encyclopaedias of the rational sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism / Gerhard Endress -- Organizing scientific knowledge : the 'mixed' sciences in early classifications / Elaheh Kheirandish -- The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') and their philosophical treatise (Rasa'il) / Mokdad Arfa -- Al-Qazwini's 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat : an encyclopaedia of natural history? / Syrinx von Hees -- L'encyclopedisme dans l'historiographie : reflexions sur le cas d'Ibn Khaldun / Abdesselam Cheddadi -- A Europeanist's perspective / Ann Blair.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Encyclopaedic activities in the Islamic world : a few questions, and no answers / Josef van Ess -- Biographical dictionaries as the scholars' alternative history of the Muslim community / Wadad al-Qadi -- Encyclopaedic activities in Islamic jurisprudence / Ridwan al-Sayyid -- The Greek and Persian background of early Arabic encyclopedism / Dimitri Gutas -- The cycle of knowledge : intellectual traditions and encyclopaedias of the rational sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism / Gerhard Endress -- Organizing scientific knowledge : the 'mixed' sciences in early classifications / Elaheh Kheirandish -- The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') and their philosophical treatise (Rasa'il) / Mokdad Arfa -- Al-Qazwini's 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat : an encyclopaedia of natural history? / Syrinx von Hees -- L'encyclopedisme dans l'historiographie : reflexions sur le cas d'Ibn Khaldun / Abdesselam Cheddadi -- A Europeanist's perspective / Ann Blair.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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