An Islamic response to Greek astronomy

kitāb Taʻdīl hayʼat al-aflāk of Ṣadr al-Sharīʻa

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An Islamic response to Greek astronomy

kitāb Taʻdīl hayʼat al-aflāk of Ṣadr al-Sharīʻa

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An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy is an edition, translation of and commentary on the astronomical work of the fourteenth-century Central Asian religious scholar Sadr al-Shari'a al-Bukhari. Sadr al-Shari'a develops the works of the thirteenth-century Maragha researchers, which set the tone for the astronomical research until the eventual demise of Ptolemaic astronomy.

This work elucidates the development and achievement of the long tradition of reforming Ptolemaic astronomy. It corroborates other evidence that scientific creativity persisted well beyond the eleventh century, a period often viewed as an age of cultural decline and stagnation. Sadr al-Shari'a's knowledge of and competence in a diverse variety of disciplines is a compelling example of the state of education and level of scholarship in a fourteenth-century Muslim urban setting.

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E.J. Brill
Language
English
Pages
461

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-456) and index.
Revision of Ahmad S. Dallal's thesis--Columbia University, New York, 1990.

Published in
Leiden, New York
Series
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science,, v. 23

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Dewey Decimal Class
520
Library of Congress
QB23 .M2813 1995, QB23.M2813 1995

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viii, 461 p. :
Number of pages
461

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OL780981M
ISBN 10
9004099689
LCCN
95012871
OCLC/WorldCat
32236171
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749310

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