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Professor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.

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Author:   Fuat Sezgin ,  Joep Lameer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   167.6
Weight:   0.930kg
ISBN:  

9789004688988

ISBN 10:   9004688986
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   21 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Transliteration and Abbreviations 1 Introduction  A. The Current State of Research  B. Beginnings of Arabic Astronomy  C. Reception of Scientific Astronomy  D. Assimilation of Scientific Astronomy  E. Onset of the Creative Period  F. Novel Planetary Models  G. Struggle against Ptolemaic Cosmology  H. Aftereffects  I. Sources for Our Knowledge of Arabic Astronomy 2 Sources  A. Greek Sources  B. Syriac and Persian Sources  C. Indian Sources 3 Arab Astronomers Addenda to Volume VI Bibliography, Libraries and Collections of Arabic Manuscripts Index of Authors Index of Book Titles Index of Modern Authors, Publishers, Editors Index of Shelf Numbers of Anonymous Manuscripts

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Fuat Sezgin (1924–2018, Ph.D. Istanbul, 1951), a renowned Turkish orientalist and historian of science, was Professor Emeritus of the History of Natural Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and the founder and long-term director of the Institute of the History of the Arab-Islamic Sciences at that university. He also established Frankfurt’s (1983) and Istanbul’s (2008) Museum for the History of Science and Technology in Islam, bringing together nearly 800 ingenious replicas of historical scientific instruments and medical tools. His best-known publication is Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums, a systematically organised bio-bibliographical reference in seventeen volumes on the history of science and technology in the Islamic world. Being a literary history in the broadest sense of the word, this magnum opus dedicates a large part of its focus to the history of science and technology in the Islamic world. Joep Lameer (Ph.D. Leiden, 1992) specialises in Islamic philosophy and logic. Proficient in Persian and Arabic, he has a passion for philology and codicology, publishing books and scholarly articles, some of them jointly with young and upcoming scholars from Iran. A resident of Tehran for several years, he was awarded the Iranian Book of the Year Prize in 2010 for a study on the epistemology of Mullā Ṣadrā (17th cent.). Doing much to promote Iranian scholarship outside Iran, he was actively involved in Brill’s publication of the Miras Maktoob Persian e-book Collection some years ago.

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