Organizing Knowledge

Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World. Edited by Gerhard Endress.

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 medieval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences. XVII,234 Seiten, gebunden (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; vol. 61/Brill 2006) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/minor traces of use