Search: Middle East and Islamic Studies - Philosophy, Theology &amp; Science, Bibliographic Set

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Volkstümliche Astronomie im islamischen Mittelalter (2 vols)

Petra Schmidl

This source book provides new information about a much neglected aspect of the scientific tradition of the Islamic Middle Ages, focusing on folk astronomy and its relations to religious duties (determination of the times of Muslim prayer and the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (Arabic qibla)).

€320.00$415.00

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9789004151680

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Persian Wisdom in Arabic Garb (2 vols)

Edited and Translated by Mohsen Zakeri

This source publication of ʿAlī b. ʿUbayda al-Rayḥānī ’s remaining works provides fascinating new material for the study of Arabic literature on proverbs, translations of classical Greek and Persian into Arabic, and clarification of numerous obscure titles in the Arabic bibliographical literature.

€404.00$523.00

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9789004121027

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Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam (2 vols.)

Edited and translated by Edwin E. Calverley and James W. Pollock

In terms of the Science of Theological Statement [Kalam] Abd Allah Baydawi (d. 1316?) concisely outlines perceived Islamic reality - in its modes of the naturally Possible, the apodictically Divine, and the humanly heroic Prophetic - as the process of perfecting man's spiritual structure.

€406.00$526.00

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9789004117334

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Abū Ma‘šar on Historical Astrology: The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions) (2 vols)

Abū Ma‘šar. Edited and translated by Keiji Yamamoto and Charles Burnett

These volumes provide the Arabic, Latin and English versions of the major text on political astrology of the Middle Ages, generally attributed to Abū Ma‘šar (Albumasar), with a commentary and Latin-Arabic and Arabic-Latin glossaries.