Robert Morrison

Islam and Science

The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the work of Iranian scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book attempts to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. It also examines the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's science, and statements he made in his Qur'an commentary and in other non-scientific writings.

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This book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415772341
• ISBN-10: 0415772346
• Artikelnr.: 23593086

Autorenporträt

Robert Morrison is Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitman College, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nishapur in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests 2. Religious Motivations
for Nisaburi's Early Work on Observational Astronomy 3. Nisaburi and
Critical Questions of Kalim 4. The Heavens Subjugated to God 5. The
Principles of Astronomy are those of Jurisprudence 6. The Role of Science
in the Portrayals of Nature in Nisaburi's Qur'an Commentary 7. The Role of
the Esoteric