Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary.
"The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of mediaeval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning as well as the rational scien...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Series: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ;
v. 61. |
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| Summary: | "The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of mediaeval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 234 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004146970 9789004146976 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8729 ; |