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Preface |
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Introduction |
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Part I Late Antiquity, translating and the formation of the sciences in Islamicate polities (1st BH-7th/5th-13th centuries) |
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I.1 Translation as an enduring and widespread cultural practice |
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15 | (10) |
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I.2 Multiple translation activities |
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25 | (14) |
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I.3 Translations in the mathematical sciences |
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39 | (18) |
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I.4 Translations of medical and occult texts into Arabic and Syriac and their contexts after 80/700 |
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57 | (7) |
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I.5 Geometry and its branches |
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64 | (16) |
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I.6 The astral sciences through the 7th/13th century: Attitudes, experts and practices |
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80 | (16) |
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I.7 Algebra and arithmetic |
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96 | (10) |
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I.8 Optics: experiments and applications |
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106 | (7) |
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I.9 Automata and balances |
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113 | (17) |
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130 | (10) |
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140 | (14) |
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I.12 Alchemy and the chemical crafts |
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154 | (12) |
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I.13 Geography and map making |
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166 | (14) |
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I.14 Physiognomy: science of intuition |
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180 | (14) |
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I.15 The Hieroglyphic script deciphered? An Arabic treatise on ancient and occult alphabets |
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194 | (14) |
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I.16 Practices of Zoroastrian scholars before and after the advent of Islam |
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208 | (13) |
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I.17 Evaluating the past: scholarly views of ancient societies and their sciences |
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221 | (10) |
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Part II Scientific practices at courts, observatories and hospitals (2nd-13th/8th-19th centuries) |
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231 | (136) |
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II.1 The emergence of Persian as a language of science |
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233 | (7) |
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II.2 The emergence of a new scholarly language: the case of Ottoman Turkish |
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240 | (8) |
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II.3 Imperial demand and support |
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248 | (11) |
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II.4 The practice of pharmacy in later medieval Egypt |
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259 | (9) |
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II.5 Ottoman and Safavid health practices and institutions |
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268 | (12) |
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280 | (18) |
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II.7 Practices of celestial observation in the Islamicate world |
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298 | (15) |
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II.8 The practical aspects of Ottoman maps |
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313 | (15) |
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II.9 Another scientific revolution: the occult sciences in theory and experimentalist practice |
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328 | (12) |
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II.10 Arts, sciences and princely patronage at Islamicate courts (4th/10th-11th/17th centuries) |
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340 | (14) |
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II.11 Physiognomy (ilm-i firaset) and politics at the Ottoman court |
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354 | (13) |
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Part III Learning and collecting institutions - debates and methods (3rd-13th/9th-19th centuries) |
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367 | (94) |
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III.1 Libraries -- beginnings, diffusion and consolidation |
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369 | (9) |
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III.2 Madrasas and the sciences |
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378 | (16) |
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III.3 Scientific matters in kalam (theology) |
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394 | (9) |
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III.4 Ash'arite occasionalist cosmology, al-Ghazall and the pursuit of the natural sciences in Islamicate societies |
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403 | (10) |
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III.5 The role of sense perception and experience (tajriba) in Arabic theories of science |
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413 | (6) |
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III.6 Logic: didactics and visual representations |
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419 | (17) |
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III.7 Medical commentaries |
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436 | (11) |
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III.8 Textual genres and visual representations in the astral sciences |
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447 | (14) |
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Part IV The materiality of the sciences (3rd-13th/9th-19th centuries) |
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461 | (92) |
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IV.1 The materiality of scholarship |
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463 | (11) |
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IV.2 Three-dimensional astronomy: celestial globes and armillary spheres |
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474 | (12) |
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IV.3 Projecting the heavens: astrolabes |
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486 | (16) |
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502 | (10) |
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IV.5 Alchemical equipment |
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512 | (11) |
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IV.6 Water and technology in the Islamicate world |
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523 | (15) |
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IV.7 Arts and sciences in the Islamicate world |
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538 | (15) |
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Part V Centers, regions, empires and the outskirts (3rd-113th/9th-19th centuries) |
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553 | (168) |
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V.1 Mathematical knowledge fields in the Islamicate world: similarities and differences |
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555 | (11) |
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V.2 Jewish mathematical activities in medieval Islamicate societies and border zones |
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566 | (14) |
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V.3 Patronage and the practice of astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib |
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580 | (15) |
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V.4 Anwa' and miqat in calendars and almanacs of the societies of al-Andalus and the far Maghrib |
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595 | (13) |
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V.5 Scholarly communities dedicated to the sciences in al-Andalus |
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608 | (14) |
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V.6 Post-Avicennan natural philosophy |
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622 | (12) |
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V.7 Cool and calming as the rose: pharmaceutical texts as tools of regional medical practices in early modern India |
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634 | (7) |
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V.8 Medical practices and cross-cultural interactions in Persianate South Asia |
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641 | (9) |
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V.9 Premodern Ottoman perspectives on natural phenomena |
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650 | (14) |
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V.10 Scientific practices in sub-Saharan Africa |
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664 | (15) |
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V.11 Medical practices in Tibet in intercultural contexts |
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679 | (9) |
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V.12 Islamicate astral sciences in eastern Eurasia during the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) |
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688 | (8) |
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V.13 Collation and articulation of Arabo-Persian scientific texts in early modern China |
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696 | (9) |
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V.14 The multiplicity of translating communities in the Iberian Peninsula (12th--13th centuries) |
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705 | (16) |
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Jose Luis Alexis Rivera Luque |
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Part VI Encounters, conflicts, changes (4th-13th/10th-19th centuries) |
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VI.1 Cross-communal scholarly interactions |
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723 | (18) |
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VI.2 Which is the right qiblal |
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741 | (11) |
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VI.3 Were philosophers considered heretics in Islam? |
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752 | (9) |
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VI.4 Systems of knowledge: debating organization and changing relationships |
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761 | (12) |
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VI.5 Embassies, trading posts, travelers and missionaries |
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773 | (14) |
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VI.6 The sciences in two private libraries from Ottoman Syria |
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787 | (11) |
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VI.7 13th/19th-century narratives and translations of science in the South Asian Islamicate world |
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798 | (10) |
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Consolidated Bibliography |
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Index |
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