Book ID: CBB894863536

Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco (2021)

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Stearns, Justin K. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 300
Language: English

Demonstrating the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco, Revealed Sciences examines how the natural sciences flourished during this period, without developing in a similar way to the natural sciences in Europe. Offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between religious thought and the natural sciences, Justin K. Stearns shows how nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Middle Eastern scholars jointly developed a narrative of the decline of post-formative Islamic thought, including the fate of the natural sciences in the Muslim world. Challenging these depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world, Stearns uses numerous close readings of works in the natural sciences to a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in scholarly and educational landscapes of the Early Modern Magreb, and considers non-teleological possibilities for understanding a persistent engagement with the natural sciences in Early Modern Morocco.

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Authors & Contributors
Amster, Ellen Jean
Nidhal Guessoum
David Bentley Hart
Paul Tyson
Zanoni, Elena
Stolz, Daniel A.
Concepts
Science and religion
Islam
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Natural science
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Colonialism
Time Periods
19th century
Modern
Medieval
21st century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Morocco
China
Ottoman Empire
Pakistan
Malay; Malaysia
Italy
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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