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The Genius of their Age - Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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The Genius of their Age - Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated
and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding
figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of their
Age, S. Frederick Starr follows up his acclaimed Lost
Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age with a portrait of the
Arab enlightenment and its key figures—Abu-Ali al-Husayn
ibn-'Abdallah Ibn-Sina and Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad
al-Biruni. A thousand years ago, these two intellectual
giants—known as Ibn Sina and Biruni for short—achieved stunning
breakthroughs in fields as diverse as medicine, astronomy,
mathematics, philosophy, geography, and physics. Biruni measured
the earth more precisely than anyone else down to the sixteenth
century, pondered a heliocentric universe, and hypothesized the
existence of North and South America as inhabited continents. Ibn
Sina's writing on philosophy and metaphysics enriched the writings
of countless European thinkers, including St. Thomas Aquinas, while
Sina's grand synthesis of medical knowledge became the standard for
the next six hundred years in Europe, the Middle East, and India.
They both also commented extensively on the works of ancient Greeks
and earlier Muslim thinkers, whose works they aspired to
synthesize—and to transcend. Contemporaries, Ibn Sina and Biruni
were born within the borders of what is now Uzbekistan and spent
their lives in Central Asia. They also became rivals, launching a
correspondence and commentary that galvanized them despite
sometimes bitter disagreement. Centuries before the West caught up
with them, Ibn Sina and Biruni reflected their age's feats and its
intellectual high point, persisting with their inquiries and their
independence amid turmoil and rapid change. Though scholars have
long dissected the works of Ibn Sina and Biruni, S. Frederick Starr
focuses also on their lives and the times in which they lived. By
contextualizing their work and by making the age palpable to the
reader, S. Frederick Starr gives the achievements of Ibn Sina and
Biruni a holistic and unforgettably human dimension.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
S. Frederick Starr
(Chairman)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
290 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-767555-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-767555-7 |
Barcode: |
9780197675557 |
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