1st Edition
Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies Practices, Concepts, Questions
By Sonja Brentjes
Copyright 2023
244 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
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This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context... Read more
Introduction
- Novelty as Cultural Value: Places, Forms and Norms of the Claims to Novelty in Islamic Societies. English version of: ‘La Nouveauté comme valeur culturelle,’ in Sarah Carvallo, Sophie Roux (eds.), Du nouveau dans les sciences, Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage 24, Grenoble: Université Pierre Mendès France, 37–70.
- Reflections on the Role of the Exact Sciences in Islamic Culture and Education between the Twelfth and the Fifteenth Centuries, published in Mohammed Abattouy (ed.), Etudes d’histoire des sciences arabes, Casablanca: Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz, 2007, 15–33.
- What could it mean to contextualize the sciences in Islamic societies of the past?, published in Mohammed Abattouy (d.), Les sciences dans les sociétés islamiques. Approches historiques et perspectives d’avenir, Casablanca: Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz, 2007, 15–41.
- The Mathematical Sciences in the Safavid Empire: Questions and Perspectives, published in D. Hermann, F. Speziale (eds.), Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World during the Early-Modern and Modern Periods, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Tehran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 2010, 325–402.
- The prison of categories - 'decline' and its company, published in F. Opwis, and D. Reisman (eds.), Islamic philosophy, science, culture, and religion: studies in honor of Dimitri Gutas. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 131–56.
- Towards a new approach to medieval cross-cultural exchanges, co-authored with Fidora, A., & Tischler and M. M., published in Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, 1(1) (2014), 9–50.
- Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in 19th-century Germany and France, published in V. R. Remmert, M. R. Schneider, & H. Kragh Sørensen (eds.), Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Cham: Birkhäuser, (2016), 25–52.
- Was there a shift from faith-neutral to faith-based scholarly communities in Islamic societies from the classical to the post-classical period?, English version of ‘Sans Islam dan kerjasama lintas agama,’ in Symseuddein Arif (ed.), Islamic Science. Paradigma, Fakta dan Agenda, Jakarta: Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought and Civilizations, (INSISTS), 2016, 138–55.
Biography
Sonja Brentjes is an historian of science with specialization in Islamicate societies, the late medieval Mediterranean and early modern Catholic and Protestant Europe. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her latest books include: Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 800–1700 (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries (2023), co-edited with Peter Barker (associate editor) and Rana Brentjes (assistant editor).
