The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization

Author: Paul L. Heck
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9004123407

The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama B. Ja'Far and His Kitab Al-Kharaj Wa-Sina'at Al-Kitaba (Islamic History and Civilization)

This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries). Download The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama B. Ja'Far and His Kitab Al-Kharaj Wa-Sina'at Al-Kitaba (Islamic History and Civilization) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Different voices representing different social groups - savants, litterateurs, religious scholars, state officials - all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civilization. Reading the works of various branches of knowledge alongside the administrative encyclopaedia of Qudama b. Ja'far (died 337/948), a state official in the employ of the Abbasid dynasty, serves to highlight the particular point of view of the state in the intellectual and cultural dialogue of the day. At the same time, this approach Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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