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The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus
Joseph Ibn Nahmias
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Description for The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus
Hardback. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, this book contains an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy. Translator(s): Morrison, Robert G. Series: Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship. Num Pages: 410 pages, 79 b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This book contains an edition - with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary - of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua ... Read more
This book contains an edition - with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary - of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
Condition
New
Weight
739g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520287990
SKU
V9780520287990
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About Joseph Ibn Nahmias
Robert G. Morrison is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College. He is also the author of Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi.
Reviews for The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus
Morrison has carried out an outstanding and exceedingly demanding undertaking for which we all must be grateful.
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