O Ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture

In Honour of Remke Kruk
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15794-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1204 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

O ye Gentlemen explores two vital strands in Arabic culture: the Greek tradition in science and philosophy and the literary tradition. They are permanent and, though drawing on Islam as a dominant religion, they are by no means dependent on it. That the strands freely interweave within the broader scope of Schrifttum is shown by more than thirty essays on subjects as varied as the social organisation of bees, spontaneous generation in the Shi'ite tradition, astronomy in the Arabian nights, the benefits of sex, precious stones in a literary text, the virtue of women in Judaeo-Arabic stories, animals in Middle Eastern music and the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to the medieval West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vrolijk, Arnoud

Hogendijk, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Arnoud Vrolijk, Ph.D. (1998) in Arabic, Leiden University, is Curator of Oriental Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Leiden University Library. He has published extensively on various aspects of the Leiden Oriental collections and on Mamluk literature (Bringing a Laugh to a Scowling Face, Leiden 1998).

Jan P. Hogendijk, Ph.D. (1983) in mathematics, is Professor of History of Mathematics at the Universities of Utrecht and Leiden, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on the history of Islamic mathematics. He is co-editor of The Enterprise of Science in Islam, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).