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
1 - A Landscape of Learning in the Far West
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
How was knowledge transmitted in Morocco, what was transmitted in the Early Modern period, and what was the history of Moroccan institutions of learning? This chapter provides the book's social, political, and intellectual context, paying careful attention to the importance of Sufi lodges and rural centers of learning.
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- Revealed SciencesThe Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco, pp. 34 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021