Description |
xiv, 407 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Historical context -- Knowledge during the Abbasid Dynasty (750-1258) -- The quest for science -- Influence of Muslim scientists and scholars -- Influence of Muslim philosophers -- Influence of Muslim literature and culture -- Age of total knowledge -- Intellectualism in medieval Europe -- The tri-military events and the fall -- Rise of European intellectualism -- The European age -- Causes of Muslim intellectual regression -- Epilogue -- Knowledge in Pre-Islamic civilisations -- Knowledge syncretisation -- List of early sufi scholars and orders -- Farabian metaphysics -- The twenty points of refutation in Tahafut al-Falasifah -- Latter Muslim emires -- Notes on books -- References -- Index |
Summary |
For nearly a thousand years, the early Muslims were the best scholars and scientists in the world. This provides the history of the Muslim intellectualism and its impact starting from that period in three sections. The result of years of research, and analysis of a variety of disciplines, it provides remarkable new information and analytic insight that will amaze |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
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Muslim scholars -- Intellectual life.
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Islam and science.
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ISBN |
9789670957227 |
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