Maʿālim al-aṣāla wa-'l-ibdāʾ fi 'š-šurūḥ wa-'t-taʿālīq al-ʿilmīya al-mutaʾaḫḫira: aʿmāl Šams-ad-Dīn al-Ḫafrī, 956 H/1550 M = Late Arabic scientific commentaries: their role and their originality
معالم الأصالة والإبداع في الشروح والتعاليق العلمية المتأخرة أعمال شمس الدين الخفري، 956هـ/1550م

The book at hand focuses on the importance of scientific commentaries, especially manuscripts on astronomy, authored between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century. Dr Saliba demonstrates that particular commentaries were distinguished by the introduction of new scientific thinking, and also a lev...

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Main Author: Saliba, George 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:Arabic
Published: London al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts 1436 h/2015 m
Edition:aṭ-Ṭabʿa al-ūlā
Series:Silsilat muḥāḍarāt
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Summary:The book at hand focuses on the importance of scientific commentaries, especially manuscripts on astronomy, authored between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century. Dr Saliba demonstrates that particular commentaries were distinguished by the introduction of new scientific thinking, and also a level of astronomical mathematical sophistication that outmatched any of the earlier works that were produced within the Islamic civilisation, and, in some instances, even surpassed the contemporary scientific works that were produced in Europe at the time. Dr Saliba attributes the lack of scholarly attention to late scientific commentaries to a number of reasons, most prominently: the difficulty in reading late commentaries, absence of explanatory illustrations, and a perpetuated misconception that following the classical or golden age of Islam, there was nothing worth studying in terms of cultural output
Item Description:Der Titel erschien 2014 auf Englisch unter dem hier genannten Parallelsachtitel "Late Arabic scientific commentaries: their role and their originality"
Physical Description:169 Seiten Faksimiles, Diagramme 20 cm
ISBN:1905122667
9781905122660

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