Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary.

The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of mediaeval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences o...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Endress, Gerhard, 1939-, Filali-Ansary, Abdou
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:	Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 61.
Subjects:	Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic > History and criticism. Islamic learning and scholarship > History. Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic. Islamic learning and scholarship. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.