Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface: Paths not Taken
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Narratives of Science, Old and New
- 1 A Landscape of Learning in the Far West
- Excursus: The Poverty of Intellectual History as a Series of Great Men
- 2 Constructing Knowledge in Morocco between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Excursus: The Horizons of Causality or How to Think about Causes, Nature, and Ghosts of Scientific Methods
- 3 Legalizing Science: The Authority of the Natural Sciences in Islamic Law
- Excursus: Kuhn and the History of Science in Islamicate Societies
- 4 Writing the Mathematical and Natural Sciences
- Excursus: Sufism and the Spiritual Life or Balancing the Exoteric and Esoteric Sciences
- Conclusion: The Significance of a Landscape of Sciences in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
- Appendix 1: List of the Sciences Given in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāsī’s Kitāb al-Uqnūm
- Appendix 2: Extant Manuscripts in the Natural Sciences from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in Moroccan Libraries
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series
2 - Constructing Knowledge in Morocco between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface: Paths not Taken
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Narratives of Science, Old and New
- 1 A Landscape of Learning in the Far West
- Excursus: The Poverty of Intellectual History as a Series of Great Men
- 2 Constructing Knowledge in Morocco between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Excursus: The Horizons of Causality or How to Think about Causes, Nature, and Ghosts of Scientific Methods
- 3 Legalizing Science: The Authority of the Natural Sciences in Islamic Law
- Excursus: Kuhn and the History of Science in Islamicate Societies
- 4 Writing the Mathematical and Natural Sciences
- Excursus: Sufism and the Spiritual Life or Balancing the Exoteric and Esoteric Sciences
- Conclusion: The Significance of a Landscape of Sciences in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
- Appendix 1: List of the Sciences Given in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāsī’s Kitāb al-Uqnūm
- Appendix 2: Extant Manuscripts in the Natural Sciences from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in Moroccan Libraries
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series
Summary
In order to reconstruct the nature and place of the natural sciences in Early Modern Moroccan thought, this chapter reviews biobiogragraphical dictionaries, intellectual autobiographies, and works on the categorization and transmission of the sciences from the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. This survey reveals that the natural sciences were an accepted, if minority pursuit, and that prominent scholars such as al-Yūsī saw them as divinely revealed and playing an important role in furthering the good of the Muslim community.
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- Revealed SciencesThe Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco, pp. 73 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021