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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.
The book will appeal in particular to teachers of history of
science in Islamicate societies, to graduate students interested in
issues of methodology and to historians of science grappling with
the unresolved problems of how think and write about the sciences
in concrete societies of the past instead of subsuming all extant
texts, instruments, maps and other objects related to the sciences
under macro-level concepts like Islam or Latin Europe.
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 intellectual traditions and persuasions to
institutions, such as courts, schools, hospitals, and
observatories, to the materiality of scientific practices,
including the arts and craftsmanship. Chapters also devote
attention to scientific practices of minority communities in Muslim
majority societies, and Muslim minority groups in societies outside
the Islamicate world, thereby allowing readers to better understand
the opportunities and constraints of scientific practices under
varying local conditions. Through replacing Islam with Islamicate
societies, the book opens up ways to explain similarities and
differences between diverse societies ruled by Muslim dynasties.
This handbook will be an invaluable resource for both established
academics and students looking for an introduction to the field. It
will appeal to those involved in the study of the history of
science, the history of ideas, intellectual history, social or
cultural history, Islamic studies, Middle East and African studies
including history, and studies of Muslim communities in Europe and
South and East Asia.
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 sets of skills and values, to how an ancient warlord was
transformed into the iconic hero of a newly created monotheistic
religion. Between these two poles, the emergence of a new,
knowledge-related, but market-based profession in Baghdad is
discussed, alongside the long-distance transfer of texts, doctrines
and values within a religious minority community from the shores of
the Caspian Sea to the mountains of the southern Arabian Peninsula.
The authors also investigate the outsourcing of military units and
skills across religious and political boundaries, the construction
of cross-cultural knowledge of the balance through networks of
scholars, patrons, merchants and craftsmen, as well as differences
in linguistic and pharmaceutical practices in mixed cultural
environments for shared corpora of texts, drugs and plants.
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 sets of skills and values, to how an ancient warlord was
transformed into the iconic hero of a newly created monotheistic
religion. Between these two poles, the emergence of a new,
knowledge-related, but market-based profession in Baghdad is
discussed, alongside the long-distance transfer of texts, doctrines
and values within a religious minority community from the shores of
the Caspian Sea to the mountains of the southern Arabian Peninsula.
The authors also investigate the outsourcing of military units and
skills across religious and political boundaries, the construction
of cross-cultural knowledge of the balance through networks of
scholars, patrons, merchants and craftsmen, as well as differences
in linguistic and pharmaceutical practices in mixed cultural
environments for shared corpora of texts, drugs and plants.
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
centuries) and before the Napoleonic invasion of Ottoman Egypt
(1798). The second concern is the "Western" discourse about the
decline or even disappearance of the sciences in late medieval and
early modern Islamic societies and, third, the construction of
Western Asian natures and cultures in Catholic and Protestant
books, maps and pictures. The articles discuss institutional and
personal relationships, describe how Catholic or Protestant
travellers learned about and accessed Muslim scholarly literature,
and uncover contradictory modes of reporting, evaluating or
eradicating the visited cultures and their knowledge.
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