'Ilm : science, religion and art in Islam / edited by Samer Akkach
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- 7968565
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- Adelaide, South Australia : University of Adelaide Press, [2019]
- ©2019
- xvi, 210 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781925261752 (paperback)
- 1925261751
- Summary:
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"This edited volume of chapters resulted from an international conference held at the University of Adelaide in July 2016 under the same title to explore the multifaceted concept of 'ilm in Islam - its agency and manifestations in the connected realms of science, religion, and the arts. The aim is to explore the Islamic civilisational responses to major shifts in the concept of 'knowledge' that took place in the post-mediaeval period, and especially within the context of the 'early modern'. From the perspective of this volume, as shown by the multiple perspectives of the authors, the true value of knowledge lies in its cross-civilisational reach, as when the development of knowledge in pre-modern Islam exerted profound changes onto the Europeans, whose resurgence in the early modern period has in turn forced massive changes onto the Islamic worldview and its systems of knowledge. Now the landscape of knowledge has significantly changed, the Muslim mind, which has been historically calibrated to be particularly sensitive towards knowledge, can and should open to new horizons of knowing where science, religion, and art can meet again on freshly cultivated and intellectually fertile grounds." -- cover description.
- Full contents:
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- Preface
- Notes to the reader
- Glossary
- List of contributors
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I 'Ilm as science
- 1. Polarising 'ilm: Science and religion in early modern Islam / Samer Akkach
- 2. Science and art: anatomical illustrations in early Islamic optics / Perri Sparnon
- 3. The imperial Mughal hunt: a pursuit of knowledge / Shaha Parpia
- 4. The House of Stars: astronomy and the architecture of new science in early modern Lucknow (1831-49) / Katharine Bartsch and Peter Scriver
- Part II 'Ilm as religion
- 5. 'By the Pen!': Spreading 'ilm in Indonesia through Quranic calligraphy / Virginia Hooker
- 6. The Islamisation of 'ilm: ideals and realities in a globalised world / Syed Mehboob Bukhari
- 7. In between the mind and the heart: Kātip Çelebi's concept of 'ilm / Selen Morkoç
- 8. 'Ilm and the human body: Al-Suhrawardī's concept of the illuminated temple / Faris Hajamaideen
- Part III 'Ilm as art
- 9. 'Ilm and the 'architecture of happiness': the Ottoman imperial palace at Edirne/Adrianople, 1451-1877 / Susan Scollay
- 10. 'Ilm or fashion? The question of identity in the batik designs of Java / James Bennett
- 11. Curating 'ilm: Chapter or bridge? / Sam Bowker
- Bibliography.
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- Includes bibliographic references.
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