The Sciences In Islamicate Societies In Context

Author : Sonja Brentjes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000987256

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The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context by Sonja Brentjes Pdf

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. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of the astral and other sciences in the Mamluk sultanate; and narratives about knowledge. The main arguments are directed against the then dominant historiographical claims about the exclusion of the ancient sciences from the madrasa and cognate educational institutes, the suppression of philosophy and other ancient sciences in Damascus after 1229, the limited role of the new experts for timekeeping in the educational and professional exercise of this science, and the marginal impact of astrology under Mamluk rule. It is shown that the muwaqqits (timekeepers) were important teachers at madrasas and Sufi convents, that Mamluk officers sought out astrologers for counselling and that narratives about knowledge reveal important information about scholarly debates and beliefs. Colophons and dedications are used to prove that courtly patronage for the ancient sciences continued uninterrupted until the end of the seventeenth century. Furthermore, these papers refute the idea of a continued and strong conflict between the ancient and modern sciences, showing rather shifting alliances between various of them and their regrouping in the classifications of the entire disciplinary edifice. These papers are suited for graduate teaching in the history of science and the intellectual, cultural and social history of the Middle East and for all readers interested in the study of the contexts of the sciences.

Author : Sonja Brentjes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351692694

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Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies by Sonja Brentjes Pdf

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.

Author : Sonja Brentjes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000921410

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Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies by Sonja Brentjes Pdf

This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context and decline. Two other papers discuss the historiographical practices of historians of mathematics and other disciplines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The central argument of the collected papers is that in addition and beyond the study of scientific texts and instruments historians of science in Islamicate societies need to pay attention to cultural, material and social aspects that shaped the scientific activities of the authors and makers of such texts and instruments. It is pointed out that the diachronic, de-contextualized comparison between methods and results of scholars from different centuries, regions and cultures often leads to serious distortions of the historical record and is responsible for the long-term neglect of scholarly activities after the so-called "Golden Age". 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. (CS 1114).

Author : Allen James Fromherz,Nadav Samin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004443341

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Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies by Allen James Fromherz,Nadav Samin Pdf

Senior scholars of Islamic studies and the anthropology of Islam gather in this volume to pay tribute to one of the giants of the field, Dale F. Eickelman.

Author : Irene A. Bierman
Publisher : Garnet & Ithaca Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0863722989

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Text & Context in Islamic Societies by Irene A. Bierman Pdf

A collection of papers from the sixteenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference wihch honored Andre Raymond and Josef van Ess.

Author : Nasim Butt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Islam and science
ISBN : UOM:39015024979174

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Science and Muslim Societies by Nasim Butt Pdf

Author : Jeanine Elif Dağyeli,Claudia Ghrawi,Ulrike Freitag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110727111

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Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds by Jeanine Elif Dağyeli,Claudia Ghrawi,Ulrike Freitag Pdf

To what extent can Islam be localized in an increasingly interconnected world? The contributions to this volume investigate different facets of Muslim lives in the context of increasingly dense transregional connections, highlighting how the circulation of ideas about ‘Muslimness’ contributed to the shaping of specific ideas about what constitutes Islam and its role in society and politics. Infrastructural changes have prompted the intensification of scholarly and trade networks, prompted the circulation of new literary genres or shaped stereotypical images of Muslims. This, in turn, had consequences in widely differing fields such as self-representation and governance of Muslims. The contributions in this volume explore this issue in geographical contexts ranging from South Asia to Europe and the US. Coming from the disciplines of history, anthropology, religious studies, literary studies and political science, the authors collectively demonstrate the need to combine a translocal perspective with very specific local and historical constellations. The book complicates conventional academic divisions and invites to think in historically specific translocal contexts.

Author : Mohammed Hashas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030660895

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Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges by Mohammed Hashas Pdf

This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi‘a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts? These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.

Author : Aziz Al-Azmeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134607464

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Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam) by Aziz Al-Azmeh Pdf

This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar), philosophical sciences such as metaphysics and ethics, in addition to technical disciplines like political theory and medicine, and other fields of intellectual endeavour. The book identifies and develops a number of conceptual elements common to the various areas of official Arabic scientific discourse, and shows how these elements integrate these disparate sciences into an historical epistemic unity. The specific profile of each of these different sciences is described, in terms of its conceptual content, but especially with reference to its historical circumstances. These are seen to be embodied in a number of institutional supports, both intellectual and social: paradigms, schools of thought, institutions of learning, pedagogic techniques, and a body of professionals, all of which combine to form definite, albeit ever renewed, traditions of learning. Finally, an attempt is made to relate Arabic scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages to patterns of scientific and political authority. First published in 1986.

Author : Masudul Alam Choudhury
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819956340

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Handbook of Islamic Philosophy of Science by Masudul Alam Choudhury Pdf

Author : Muzaffar Iqbal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351897280

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Studies in the Islam and Science Nexus by Muzaffar Iqbal Pdf

This volume brings together thematically arranged articles on the relationship between Islam and science and how it has been shaped over the last century. The articles represent a broad variety of approaches and perspectives as well as reflective and analytic views and include some of the most important voices in the Islam and science discourse. This collection, which includes a special section devoted to studies that explore various aspects of the relationship between the Qur'an and science, is a valuable resource for researchers interested in gaining a greater understanding of the broader relationship between religion and science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642242357

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Islam and Muslim Societies by Anonim Pdf

Islam is more than a religion in the strict theological sense. If we confine ourselves to doctrinal normativity and Islamic law to analyse what Muslims motivate and how they build religious landscapes and life worlds, we seriously narrow down our understanding of Islam. Islamic society is a universal society, found at every place, in East and West, in south and north, and found at all time. It was not only found at the time of the Prophet, but also before his time, and at the time of other Messengers from Adam to Jesus (peace be upon them all), and after their time. Koranic teachings promote an ascetic ethic of self-control that bears on virtually all aspects of everyday activity. For Muslims, faith has not merely been a matter of private life and a personal relation with God. It has had pervasive social consequences. The Holy Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet are concerned about Muslim and Islamic society. In many ways these holy books focuses on the importance of Islamic society. Because Allah and his prophet believes that Muslims Ummah are the best among all Adam's generation. Consequently, Islamic religion takes them out from the darkness into the light in order to achieve happiness, felicity in this world and the Hereafter. This book Islam and Muslim Societies consists of studies dealing with political, economic, legal, and social policies that affect every facet of the social life of Muslims. This book is aimed at bridging the gap between the textual and contextual approaches to Islamic Studies; and solving the dichotomy between 'orthodox' and 'heterodox' Islam. It contains a selection of studies written by scholars and authors dealing with Islam and Muslim societies as its central focus of academic inquiry and to encourage comprehensive consideration of its many facets; to provide an opportunity for the study of Islam and Muslim societies in their global context; to encourage interdisciplinary studies of the Islamic world that are cross-national and comparative; to promote the diffusion, exchange and discussion of research findings; and to encourage interaction among academics from various traditions of learning.

Author : Yaser Ellethy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317627463

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Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy by Yaser Ellethy Pdf

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition. This book examines classical and modern Muslim interpretations with regard to the concepts of diachronic development, pluralism and democracy based on Arabic-Islamic sources and literature. Focusing on the parameters of semantic changes, methods of interpretation and cultural variables, it shows how this interpretative tradition offers a diversity of ideas and approaches that can be utilized in contemporary debates concerning the socio-political contextualization of Islamic genuine thought. However, within this diversity, Islam presents generic principles and core values as 'moral paradigms' that can deal with such modern challenges. Based on the analysis of core Islamic texts and key-terms related to the discussed issues, mainly from the Quran and the Sunnah, and the broader Arabic-Islamic literature, it explores the boundaries of the mutable and constant in the Islamic worldview. Presenting classical Muslim interpretations and scholars as possible interlocutors in debates over the compatibility of Islam with challenges of modernity, this book is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates interested in Islamic Studies, Philosophy of Religion and Political Science.

Author : Christian Lange
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748637331

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Public Violence in Islamic Societies by Christian Lange Pdf

This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere. Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.Contributions trace the use of violence by governments in the history of Islam, shed light on legal views of violence, and discuss artistic and religious responses. Authors lay out a spectrum of attitudes rather than trying to define an Islamic doctrine of violence. Bringing together some of the most substantive and innovative scholarship on this important topic to date, this volume contributes to the growing interest, both scholarly and general, in the question of Muslim attitudes toward violence

Author : American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226508803

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Fundamentalisms and Society by American Academy of Arts and Sciences Pdf

This book, the second volume of the Fundamentalism Project, provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years and shows the impact these movements have had on human relations, education, women's rights, and scientific research. The essays consider developments within the religious traditions of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism in over a dozen nations. What do individual fundamentalist movements regard as the foundations for and limits of knowledge? What do they understand the proper role of science to be? And how do their world views determine the application of technology? The distinguished contributors to this volume - anthropologists, historians of religion, historians of science, and sociologists - address these and other questions through a discussion of topics such as educational structures of Hindu revivalism, women in fundamentalist Iran and Pakistan, and the creationist cosmos of Protestant fundamentalism. In a concluding essay, William H. McNeill situates contemporary fundamentalisms within a world historical context. The Fundamentalism Project is a monumental undertaking by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that involves an international group of scholars. Taken together, the volumes in this series will become a standard reference for educators and policy analysts for years to come.