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  • The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context

    Patronage, Education, Narratives

    by Sonja Brentjes ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of the astral and other sciences in the Mamluk sultanate; and narratives about knowledge.The main ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies

    Practices, Concepts, Questions

    by Sonja Brentjes ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th–17th Centuries

    Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge

    by Sonja Brentjes ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns. The first is how we should understand the relationship between Christian and Muslim societies, in the period between the translations from Arabic into Latin (10th - 13th ... Read more

    $359.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies

    Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries

    Edited by Sonja Brentjes ...
    The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century.Across six sections, a group of subject experts discuss and analyze scientific practices across a wide range of Islamicate societies. The authors take into consideration several contexts in which science was practiced, ranging from ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

    Edited by Sonja Brentjes, Jürgen Renn ...
    The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of question, ranging from how history-writing drew on cross-culturally constructed stories and shared ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Ibn Khaldun

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

    The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.)

    by Dimitri Gutas ...
    From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic.Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological ... Read more

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  • Medieval Arabic Historiography

    Authors as Actors

    by Konrad Hirschler ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular ... Read more

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  • Before and After Muhammad

    The First Millennium Refocused

    by Garth Fowden ...
    A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian historyIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to ... Read more

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  • The Republic of Arabic Letters

    Islam and the European Enlightenment

    by Alexander Bevilacqua ...
    A Longman–History Today Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Deeply thoughtful…A delight.”—The Economist“[A] tour de force…Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story…He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity.”—New RepublicIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pion... ... Read more

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  • Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

    by George Saliba ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. ... Read more

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