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
Excursus: Sufism and the Spiritual Life or Balancing the Exoteric and Esoteric Sciences
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
Much of the current scholarship on Sufism has glossed the phenomenon as otherworldly mysticism, and its spread through the Arab Ottoman lands in the post formative period as having contributed to intellectual decline or extreme scholasticism. The evidence from seventeenth-century Morocco, however, speaks to Sufism providing a productive institutional and social force for the study of the natural sciences in the Early Modern period.
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- Revealed SciencesThe Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco, pp. 231 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021