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Teaching and Learning the Sciences
in Islamicate Societies (800–1700)
Studies on the Faculty of Arts
History and Influence
Volume 3
Editors
Luca Bianchi (Milano)
Jacques Verger (Paris)
Olga Weijers (Paris)
Editorial Board
Amos Bertolacci (Pisa)
Dragos Calma (Dublin)
David Lines (Warwick)
Colette Sirat (Paris)
Teaching and Learning
the Sciences in Islamicate
Societies (800–1700)
by
Sonja Brentjes
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Cover illustration:
Folio from a
Mihr-u Mushtari
(The Sun and Jupiter) by Shams al-Din
Muhammad Assar Tabrizi (d. ca. 1382); verso: Mihr at school; recto: text, Shah Shapur
sends Mihr and Mushtari to school. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.: Purchase – Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1932.5.
© 2018, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photoco-
pying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
A shorter and modified version of a part of chapter 2 has already been published in
IHIW Volume 5 number 1-2, 2017, Brill.
D/2018/0095/80
ISBN 978-2-503-57445-5
eISBN 978-2-503-57446-2
DOI 10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.112709
Printed on acid-free paper.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: CONTEXTUALIZING LEARNING AND
TEACHING OF THE SCIENCES IN ISLAMICATE SOCIETIES
1.1. The Beginnings
1.2. The Early Abbasid Period
1.3. A Period of Consolidation, Synthesis, and Contests
1.4. Breakdown, Reorientation, and Reconfirmation in the
Wake of the Mongol Conquests
1.5. Change as the Norm? A Further Wave of New
Empires and Dynasties
1.6. Consolidation, Climax, and New Challenges
1.7. Comparisons
1.8. Postface
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CHAPTER 2: TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT COURTS AND
IN PRIVATE HOMES (EIGHTH–TWELFTH CENTURIES)
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2.1. Limited Resources
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2.2. Stories about the Transfer of Philosophy and Medicine from
Alexandria to Baghdad
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2.3. Teaching the Mathematical Sciences
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2.4. Teachers and Students
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2.5. Postface
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CHAPTER 3: SCHOOLS OF ADVANCED EDUCATION
3.1. The Legal Status and Formalities of Advanced Education
3.2. Teaching Non-Religious Disciplines at Religious Institutions
3.3. Processes of Professionalization and Specialization
3.4. Secretaries, Animals, and Foreigners
CHAPTER 4: THE SCIENCES AT MADRASAS
4.1. Mathematical Disciplines
4.2. Medicine and Pharmacology
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