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Organizing knowledge

by Gerhard Endress, Abdou Filali-Ansary

HistoryIslamic learning and scholarshipKennisHistory and criticismArabic Encyclopedias and dictionariesEncyclopedieënEncyclopedias and dictionaries, history and criticism

"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 of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences."--Jacket.

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