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Book Synopsis A History of Arabic Astronomy by : George Saliba
Download or read book A History of Arabic Astronomy written by George Saliba and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Arabic Astronomy is a comprehensive survey of Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth century based on recent manuscript discoveries. George Saliba argues that the medieval period, often called a period of decline in Islamic intellectual history, was scientifically speaking, a very productive period in which astronomical theories of the highest order were produced. Based on the most recent manuscript discoveries, this book broadly surveys developments in Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth. Taken together, the primary texts and essays assembled in this book reverse traditional beliefs about the rise and fall of Arabic science, demonstrating how the traditional “age of decline” in Arabic science was indeed a “Golden Age” as far as astronomy was concerned. Some of the techniques and mathematical theorems developed during this period were identical to those which were employed by Copernicus in developing his own non-Ptolemaic astronomy. Significantly, this volume will shed much-needed light on the conditions under which such theories were developed in medieval Islam. It clearly demonstrates the distinction that was drawn between astronomical activities and astrological ones, and reveals, contrary to common perceptions about medieval Islam, the accommodation that was obviously reached between religion and astronomy, and the degree to which astronomical planetary theories were supported, and at times even financed, by the religious community itself. This in stark contrast to the systematic attacks leveled by the same religious community against astrology. To students of European intellectual history, the book reveals the technical relationship between the astronomy of the Arabs and that of Copernicus. Saliba’s definitive work will be of particular interest to historians of Arabic science as well as to historians of medieval and Renaissance European science.
Book Synopsis The Arab History by : Dār al-Kutub wa-al-Wathāʼiq al-Qawmīyah (Egypt)
Download or read book The Arab History written by Dār al-Kutub wa-al-Wathāʼiq al-Qawmīyah (Egypt) and published by Cairo : National Library Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greek elements in Arabic linguistic thinking by : Versteegh
Download or read book Greek elements in Arabic linguistic thinking written by Versteegh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE FIRST CONTACT WITH GREEK GRAMMAR /C. H. M. Versteegh -- ARTICULATED SOUND AND ITS MEANING /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE THEORY OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE UṢŪL AN-NAḤW AND GREEK EMPIRICIST MEDICINE /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE PERIOD OF THE TWO SCHOOLS /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK LOGIC /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE USE OF LOGIC IN GRAMMAR /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE MU'TAZILA /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH /C. H. M. Versteegh -- THE STOIC COMPONENT IN THE THEORY OF MEANING /C. H. M. Versteegh -- DIAGRAM OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC GRAMMARIANS /C. H. M. Versteegh -- LIST OF ABBREVIATED TITLES /C. H. M. Versteegh -- ARABIC AUTHORS QUOTED /C. H. M. Versteegh -- ORIGINALS OF THE ARABIC AND GREEK TEXTS QUOTED IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION /C. H. M. Versteegh -- INDEXES /C. H. M. Versteegh.
Book Synopsis A Culture of Ambiguity by : Thomas Bauer
Download or read book A Culture of Ambiguity written by Thomas Bauer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit no nuance. Those fighting such stereotypes have countered with a portrait of Islam’s medieval “Golden Age,” marked by rationality, tolerance, and even proto-secularism. How can we understand Islamic history, culture, and thought beyond this dichotomy? In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency that looks for ways to live with ambiguity and accept complexity. Bauer ranges across cultural and linguistic ambiguities, considering premodern Islamic textual and cultural forms from law to Quranic exegesis to literary genres alongside attitudes toward religious minorities and foreigners. He emphasizes the relative absence of conflict between religious and secular discourses in classical Islamic culture, which stands in striking contrast to both present-day fundamentalism and much of European history. Bauer shows how Islam’s encounter with the modern West and its demand for certainty helped bring about both Islamicist and secular liberal ideologies that in their own ways rejected ambiguity—and therefore also their own cultural traditions. Awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize, A Culture of Ambiguity not only reframes a vast range of Islamic history but also offers an interdisciplinary model for investigating the tolerance of ambiguity across cultures and eras.
Download or read book 2011 written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 2983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 639,000 articles from more than 29,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2010, have been catalogued.
Download or read book German books in print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Syria under Bashar al-Asad by : Volker Perthes
Download or read book Syria under Bashar al-Asad written by Volker Perthes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syria entered a new phase with the death of its long-serving leader, Hafiz al-Asad, and the accession of his son Bashar in 2000. While the new president has disappointed much of the hopes for political opening which he himself has created, Syria is clearly undergoing a process of change. The author analyses the factors of economic and political change in the country, and gives a portrait of its new leadership.
Book Synopsis Hamidian Palestine by : Johann Büssow
Download or read book Hamidian Palestine written by Johann Büssow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II, modern state institutions were established in Palestine, while national identities had not yet developed. Based on Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew sources, the book analyses this historical moment from a wide variety of perspectives.
Book Synopsis Die dunklen Anfänge by : Karl-Heinz Ohlig
Download or read book Die dunklen Anfänge written by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and published by Verlag Hans Schiler. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Islamic Origins of Western Education, A.D. 800-1350 by : Mehdi Nakosteen
Download or read book History of Islamic Origins of Western Education, A.D. 800-1350 written by Mehdi Nakosteen and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree by : Jan P. Hogendijk
Download or read book Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree written by Jan P. Hogendijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both theoretical aspects and the practical applications of the exact sciences-in time keeping, prediction of the future, and the operation of magic-are dealt with. The book includes several critical editions and translations of hitherto unknown or understudied texts, and a particular emphasis is on the diffusion of scientific learning from one culture to another, and through time. Above all, the essays show the variety and sophistication of the exact sciences in non-Western societies in pre-modern times.
Download or read book Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Qur'an and Late Antiquity by : Angelika Neuwirth
Download or read book The Qur'an and Late Antiquity written by Angelika Neuwirth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the product of a specific community in the Late Antique Arabian peninsula, one which was exposed to the wider worlds of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires, and to the rich intellectual traditions of rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism. A central goal of the book is to eliminate the notion of the Qur'an as being a-historical. She argues that it is, in fact, highly aware of its place in late antiquity and is capable of yielding valuable historical information. By emphasizing the liturgical function of the Qur'an, Neuwirth allows readers to see the text as an evolving oral tradition within the community before it became collected and codified as a book. This analysis sheds much needed light on the development of the Qur'an's historical, theological, and political outlook. The book's final chapters analyze the relationship of the Qur'an to the Bible, to Arabic poetic traditions, and, more generally, to late antique culture and rhetorical forms. By providing a new introduction to the Qur'an, one that uniquely challenges current ideas about its emergence and development, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity bridges the gap between Eastern and Western approaches to this sacred text.
Download or read book The Moslem World written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries by : Volker R. Remmert
Download or read book Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Volker R. Remmert and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of mathematics was written. In the 19th century, the history of mathematics was recorded by a diverse range of people trained in various fields and driven by different motivations and aims. These backgrounds often shaped not only their writing on the history of mathematics, but, in some instances, were also influential in their subsequent reception. During the period from roughly 1880-1940, mathematics modernized in important ways, with regard to its content, its conditions for cultivation, and its identity; and the writing of the history of mathematics played into the last part in particular. Parallel to the modernization of mathematics, the history of mathematics gradually evolved into a field of research with its own journals, societies and academic positions. Reflecting both a new professional identity and changes in its primary audience, various shifts of perspective in the way the history of mathematics was and is written can still be observed to this day. Initially concentrating on major internal, universal developments in certain sub-disciplines of mathematics, the field gradually gravitated towards a focus on contexts of knowledge production involving individuals, local practices, problems, communities, and networks. The goal of this book is to link these disciplinary and methodological changes in the history of mathematics to the broader cultural contexts of its practitioners, namely the historians of mathematics during the period in question.
Download or read book Moslem World written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos by : Niels Gaul
Download or read book Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos written by Niels Gaul and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume offers new insights into a seminal period of medieval Eastern Roman imperial history: the rule of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (913/945-959). Its fifteen chapters are organized around the concepts of center, province and periphery and take the reader from the splendor of Constantinople to the fringes of the empire. They examine life in the imperial city in the age of Constantine VII, the cultural revivals in Byzantium and the Carolingian West, as well as the emperor's historiographical projects, including his historical excerpts and the famous Book of Ceremonies. Entering the sphere of the provinces, the authors explore visual messages on the coinage of Romanos I Lekapenos and Constantine Porphyrogennetos and its circulation through the provinces, provincial legal culture in the tenth-century empire, and offer a new analysis of Constantine VII's two military harangues. Spotlights on the empire's periphery include chapters on borderland trade with the Muslim world, a compelling new theory of the untimely deaths of the children of King Hugh of Italy, and the origins of medieval Croatia in relation to information gained from Constantine VII's De administrando imperio. The ?nal chapter offers intriguing insights into Constantine VII's legacy and reception, from later middle Byzantine historiography via the Renaissance editions of the emperor's treatises to Bavarian King Louis II's Constantinople-inspired building projects. The volume combines leading scholars and new voices and contains survey chapters with detailed case studies.
