| ISBN |
1138047597 (hardcover) |
| 9781138047594 (hardcover) |
| Title |
Routledge handbook on the sciences in the Islamicate societies : practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries / edited by Sonja Brentjes ; associate editor, Peter Barker ; assistant editor, Rana Brentjes. |
| Edition |
First edition |
| Publisher |
Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York : Routledge, 2022 |
| Physical desc. |
xxxvii, 837 pages ; illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge handbooks |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sonja Brentjes -- Part 1: Late Antiquity, translating and the formation of the sciences in Islamicate polities (1st BH-7th/5th-13th centuries). Translation as an enduring and widespread cultural practice / Sonja Brentjes -- Multiple translation activities / Arash Zeini, Matteo Martelli, Paola Buzi, Alessandro Bausi, Peter Adamson -- Translations in the mathematical sciences / Nathan Sidoli -- Translations in medicine and the occult sciences into Arabic and Syriac and their contexts after 80/700 / Peter E. Pormann -- Geometry and its branches / Glen Van Brummelen -- The astral sciences until the end of the Ilkhanid dynasty: attitudes, experts and practices / Sonja Brentjes -- Algebra and arithmetic / Jeffrey Oaks -- Optics: experiments and applications / Johannes Thomann -- Automata and balances / Constantin Canavas -- Medicine / Peter E. Pormann -- Natural philosophy / Andreas Lammer -- Alchemy and the chemical crafts / Regula Forster -- Geography and mapmaking / Michael Bonner -- Physiognomy: science of intuition / Liana Saif -- The Hieroglyphic script deciphered? An Arabic treatise on ancient and occult alphabets / Christopher Braun -- Practices of Zoroastrian scholars before and after the advent of Islam / Götz König -- Evaluating the past: scholarly views of ancient societies and their sciences / Ulrich Rudolph -- Part 2: Scientific practices at courts, observatories and hospitals (2nd/8th-13th/19th centuries). The emergence of Persian as a language of science / Hossein Kamaly -- The emergence of a new scholarly language: the case of Ottoman Turkish / Ahmed Tunç Şen -- Imperial demand and support / Eva Orthmann -- The practice of pharmacy in later medieval Egypt / Leigh Chipman -- Ottoman and Safavid health practices and institutions / Miriam Shefer-Mossensohn -- Planetary theory / Amir Gamini -- Practices of celestial observation / Sonja Brentjes and Amir Gamini -- The practical aspects of Ottoman maps / Gottfried Hagen -- Another scientific revolution: the occult sciences in theory and experimentalist practice / Matthew Melvin-Koushki -- Arts, sciences and princely patronage at Islamicate courts (4th-11th/10th-17th centuries) / Yves Porter -- Physiognomy (ʿilm-i firāset) and politics at the Ottoman court / Emin Lelić -- Part 3: Learning and collecting institutions – debates and methods (3rd/9th-13th/19th centuries). Libraries – beginnings, diffusion and consolidation / Lutz Richter-Bernburg -- Madrasas and sciences / Sonja Brentjes and Abdelmalek Bouzari -- Scientific matters in kalām ('theology') / Ulrich Rudolph -- Ashʿarite occasionalist cosmology, al-Ghazālī and the pursuit of the natural sciences in Islamicate societies / Frank Griffel -- The role of sense perception and 'experience' (tajriba) in Arabic theories of science / Frank Griffel -- Logic: didactics and visual representations / Johannes Thomann -- Medical commentaries / Nahyan Fancy -- Literary genres and visual representations in the astral sciences / Sonja Brentjes -- Part 4: The materiality of the sciences (3rd/9th-13th/19th centuries). The materiality of scholarship / Konrad Hirschler -- Three-dimensional astronomy: celestial globes and armillary spheres / Taha Yasin Arslan -- Projecting the heavens: astrolabes / Taha Yasin Arslan -- Medical instruments / Fabian Käs -- Alchemical equipment / Sébastien Moureau -- Water and technology in the Islamicate world / Charlotte Schriwer -- Arts and sciences in the Islamicate world / Anna Caiozzo -- Part 5: Centers, regions, empires and the outskirts (3rd/9th-13th/19th centuries). Mathematical knowledge fields in the Islamicate world: similarities and differences / Ahmed Djebbar -- Jewish mathematical activities in medieval Islamicate societies and border zones / Naomi Aradi and Roy Wagner -- Patronage and the practice of astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib -- Julio Samsó -- Anwāʾ and mīqāt in calendars and almanacs of the societies of al-Andalus and the Extreme Maghrib / Roser Puig Aguilar -- Scholarly communities dedicated to the sciences in al-Andalus / Miquel Forcada -- Post-Avicennan natural philosophy / Jon McGinnis -- Cool and calming as the rose: pharmaceutical texts as tools of regional medical practices in early modern India / Deborah Schlein -- Medical practices and cross-cultural interactions in Persianate South Asia / Fabrizio Speziale -- Pre-Modern Ottoman perspectives on natural phenomena / Osman Süreyya Kocabaş -- Scientific practices in sub-Saharan Africa / Marc Moyon -- Medical practices in Tibet in inter-cultural contexts / Ronit Yoeli-Tllalim -- Islamicate astral sciences in eastern Eurasia during the Mongol-Yuan dynasty (1271- 1368) / Yoichi Isahaya -- Collation and articulation of Arabo-Persian scientific texts in early modern China / Dror Weil -- The multiplicity of translating communities on the Iberian Peninsula / Alexander Fidora and José Luis Alexis Rivera Duque -- Part 6: Encounters, conflicts, changes (4th-13th/10th-19th centuries). Cross-communal scholarly interactions -- Nathan Gibson and Ronny Vollandt -- Which is the right qibla? / Mònica Rius -- Were philosophers considered heretics in Islam? / Frank Griffel -- Systems of knowledge: debating organization and changing relationships / Sonja Brentjes, Nahyan Fancy and Kenan Tekin -- Embassies, trading posts, travelers and missionaries / Simon Mills -- The sciences in two private libraries from Ottoman Syria / Boris Liebrenz -- 13th/19th-century narratives and translations of science in the South Asian Islamicate world / Dhruv Raina and Irfan Habib. |
| Subject |
Science -- Islamic Empire -- History |
| Science -- Islamic countries -- History |
| Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life |
| Islamic countries -- Intellectual life |
| Added name(s) |
Brentjes, Sonja editor |
| Barker, Peter 1949- editor |
| Brentjes, Rana editor |
