Article ID: CBB537065613

Teaching the Sciences in Ninth-Century Baghdad as a Question in the History of the Book: The Case of Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī (d. after 256/870) (2017)

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This paper raises the question as to what role teaching (teachers, teaching material, orality, students) played in intellectual activities and the codification of those activities into texts and manuscripts with respect to the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy in third/ninth-century Baghdad. This issue is approached via the question of how extant works of that period, which are predominantly seen by modern historians of science either as translations or as newly composed research works, can be identified as having had a teaching function. The question of relevance, organization, and content of teaching in the highly innovative context of the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy of the third/ninth century is historiographically significant beyond the recovery of historical details about texts and their character.

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Authors & Contributors
King, David A.
Kheirandish, Elaheh
Violet Moller
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
Wright, Owen
Tibi, Selma
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Mathematics
Translations
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Time Periods
9th century
Medieval
10th century
Early modern
Renaissance
20th century
Places
Baghdad (Iraq)
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Isfahan (Iran)
Middle and Near East
Cairo (Egypt)
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
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