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: The Poverty of Intellectual History as a Series of Great Men
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
For the Muslim world, telling the history of science as the achievements of a series of remarkable men has remained a viable approach for much longer than in Europe. This excursus retraces the traditional narrative of the natural and rational sciences in the Muslim world, and argues that a focus on the diffusion of knowledge throughout society provides a more productive understanding of the role of the natural sciences than a focus on individuals.
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- Revealed SciencesThe Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco, pp. 68 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021