Research Catalog

Title

Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700) / by Sonja Brentjes.

Author

Brentjes, Sonja

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
• ©2018

Supplementary Content

cover image

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

334 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 21 cm.

Summary

This book surveys teaching and learning of the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks up also developments in Iran, India, Anatolia, and Iraq. It talks about institutions of teaching and learning such a house and court teachers, madrasas, hospitals, in-family teaching and travelling in search of knowledge and the content of the various sciences taught by or at them. Methods of teaching and learning, teaching bestsellers and their geographical and temporal dissemination, as well as encyclopaedias and literature on the classification of the sciences will be discussed in further chapters.

Series Statement

Studies on the faculty of arts, History and influence ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Studies on the faculty of arts: history and influence ; v. 3.

Alternative Title

Sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700)

Subjects

• Mathematics > Study and teaching
• Science > Study and teaching
• History
• Islamic countries
• Mathematics > Study and teaching > Islamic countries > History
• Science > Study and teaching > Islamic countries > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index.

Contents

CHAPTER 1: CONTEXTUALIZING LEARNING AND TEACHING OF THE SCIENCES IN ISLAMICATE SOCIETIES -- 1.1. The Beginnings -- 1.2. The Early Abbasid Period -- 1.3. A Period of Consolidation, Synthesis, and Contests -- 1.4. Breakdown, Reorientation, and Reconfirmation in the Wake of the Mongol Conquest -- 1.5. Change as the Norm? A Further Wave of New Empires and Dynasties -- 1.6. Consolidation, Climax, and New Challenges -- 1.7. Comparisons -- 1.8. Postface -- CHAPTER 2: TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT COURTS AND IN PRIVATE HOMES (EIGHT-TWELFTH CENTURIES) -- 2.1. Limited Resources -- 2.2. Stories about the Transfer of Philosophy and Medicine from Alexandria to Baghdad -- 2.3. Teaching the Mathematical Sciences -- 2.4. Teachers and Students -- 2.5. Postface -- CHAPTER 3: SCHOOLS OF ADVANCED EDUCATION -- 3.1. The Legal Status and Formalities of Advanced Education -- 3.2. Teaching Non-Religious Disciplines at Religious Institutions -- 3.3. Processes of Professionalization and Specialization, -- 3.4. Secretaries, Animals, and Foreigners -- CHAPTER 4: THE SCIENCES AT MADRASAS -- 4.1. Mathematical Disciplines -- 4.2. Medicine and Pharmacology -- 4.3. Natural Philosophy -- 4.4. Divination, Magic, Alchemy -- 4.5. Postface -- CHAPTER 5: OTHER TEACHING INSTITUTIONS -- 5.1. Learning and Teaching at Hospitals -- 5.2. Family Education -- 5.3. Travel for the Sake of Knowledge -- 5.4. Postface -- CHAPTER 6: TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS -- 6.1. Meetings, Teachers, and Goals -- 6.2. Reflections on Creativity and Professional Control -- 6.3. Reading, Writing, Speaking, Seeing -- 6.4. Tradition, Ingenuity, and Discursive Method -- 6.5. "The Etiquette of Scholarly Disputation" -- 6.6. Commentaries and Super-Commentaries -- 6.7. Postface -- CHAPTER 7: ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE SCIENCE -- 7.1. Philosophical Perspectives and Works -- 7.2. Administrators and Their Encyclopaedias and Knowledge Systems -- 7.3. Madrasa Teachers as Writers of Summas and Divisions -- 7.4. Postface -- CHAPTER 8: TEACHING LITERATURE AND ITS TEMPORAL GEOGRAPHIES -- 8.1. Euclid's Elements and the Middle Books -- 8.2. Other School Texts for Geometry -- 8.3. Arithmetic, Algebra, and Number Theory -- 8.4. Astronomy and Astrology -- 8.5. Medicine-- 8.6. Logic and Natural Philosophy -- 8.7. Postface.

Call Number

JFD 19-5592

ISBN

• 9782503574455
• 2503574459
• 9782503574462 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

993772571

Author

Brentjes, Sonja, author.

Title

Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700) / by Sonja Brentjes.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies on the faculty of arts, History and influence ; volume 3

Studies on the faculty of arts: history and influence ; v. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index.

Connect to:

cover image

Research Call Number

JFD 19-5592