Khaled El-Rouayheb (Massachusetts Harvard University)

Broschiertes Buch

Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century

Beschreibung

This book is the first sustained effort at investigating the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period and argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory.

Autor

Khaled El-Rouayheb is a Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He specializes in Arabic and Islamic intellectual history, especially in the period from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (2005) and Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900 (2010). He is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy (with Sabine Schmidtke, 2016).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781107617568
• ISBN-10: 1107617561
• Artikelnr.: 48208157