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Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World

By Gerhard Endress

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About the book

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 medieval 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 encyclopaedia. Successive chapters explore the bases of authority in t...Show more

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9789004146976

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World

Format

Hardcover

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