Organizing knowledge
Subtitle: encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world
By: edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary.
Contributors: Endress, Gerhard, 1939-; Filali-Ansary, Abdou.
Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science -- v. 61.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic -- History and criticism.; Islamic learning and scholarship -- History.; Encyclopedieën.; Kennis.; 2.
Description: "The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of mediaeval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index.