Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies

This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline.

Autorentext

Sonja Brentjes is an historian of science with specialization in Islamicate societies, the late medieval Mediterranean and early modern Catholic and Protestant Europe. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her latest books include: Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 8001700 (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries (2023), co-edited with Peter Barker (associate editor) and Rana Brentjes (assistant editor).

Inhalt

Novelty as Cultural Value: Places, Forms and Norms of the Claims to Novelty in Islamic Societies. / Reflections on the Role of the Exact Sciences in Islamic Culture and Education between the Twelfth and the Fifteenth Centuries / What could it mean to contextualize the sciences in Islamic societies of the past? / The Mathematical Sciences in the Safavid Empire: Questions and Perspectives / The prison of categories - 'decline' and its company / Towards a new approach to medieval cross-cultural exchanges / Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in 19th-century Germany and France / Was there a shift from faith-neutral to faith-based scholarly communities in Islamic societies from the classical to the post-classical period?