About the book
The book at hand focuses on the importance of scientific commentaries, especially manuscripts on astronomy, authored between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century. Dr Saliba demonstrates that particular commentaries were distinguished by the introduction of new scientific thinking, and also a level of astronomical mathematical sophistication that outmatched any of the earlier works that were produced within the Islamic civilisation, and, in some instances, even surpassed the contemporary scientific works that were produced in Europe at the time. Dr Saliba attributes the lack of scholarly attention to late scientific commentaries to a number of reasons, most prominently: the difficulty in reading late commentaries, absence of explanatory illustrations, and a perpetuated misconception that following the classical or golden age of Islam, there was nothing worth studying in terms of cultural output.
Editions of Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality : Works of Shams al-Din al-Khafri (1550 C.E./956 A.H.)
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- ISBN 9781905122660
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The book at hand focuses on the importance of scientific commentaries, especially manuscripts on astronomy, authored between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century. Dr Saliba demonstrates that particular commentaries were distinguished by the introduction of new scientific thinking, and also a level of astronomical mathematical sophistication that outmatched any of the earlier works that were produced within the Islamic civilisation, and, in some instances, even surpassed the contemporary scientific works that were produced in Europe at the time. Dr Saliba attributes the lack of scholarly attention to late scientific commentaries to a number of reasons, most prominently: the difficulty in reading late commentaries, absence of explanatory illustrations, and a perpetuated misconception that following the classical or golden age of Islam, there was nothing worth studying in terms of cultural output.
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What is Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality : Works of Shams al-Din al-Khafri (1550 C.E./956 A.H.) about?
The book at hand focuses on the importance of scientific commentaries, especially manuscripts on astronomy, authored between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century. Dr Saliba demonstrates that particular commentaries were distinguished by the introduction of new scientific thinking, and also a level of astronomical mathematical sophistication that outmatched any of the earlier works that were produced within the Islamic civilisation, and, in some instances, even surpassed the contemporary scientific works that were produced in Europe at the time. Dr Saliba attributes the lack of scholarly attention to late scientific commentaries to a number of reasons, most prominently: the difficulty in reading late commentaries, absence of explanatory illustrations, and a perpetuated misconception that following the classical or golden age of Islam, there was nothing worth studying in terms of cultural output.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality : Works of Shams al-Din al-Khafri (1550 C.E./956 A.H.)?
Mathematics and Science > Astronomy, space and time
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality : Works of Shams al-Din al-Khafri (1550 C.E./956 A.H.)?
George Saliba
Who is the Publisher of the book Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality : Works of Shams al-Din al-Khafri (1550 C.E./956 A.H.)?
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
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Late Arabic Scientific Commentaries: Their Role and Their Originality : Works of Shams al-Din al-Khafri (1550 C.E./956 A.H.) is available as paperback(ISBN 9781905122660)