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Brentjes, Sonja, "Teaching the Sciences in Ninth-Century Baghdad as a Question in the History of the Book: The Case of Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī (d. after 256/870)", Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 5/1-2 [=Histories of Books in the Islamicate World, 2, ed. Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke i Sarah Stroumsa] (2017), 1-27.

Resum

This paper raises the question as to what role teaching (teachers, teaching material, orality, students) played in intellectual activities and the codification of those activities into texts and manuscripts with respect to the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy in third/ninth-century Baghdad. This issue is approached via the question of how extant works of that period, which are predominantly seen by modern historians of science either as translations or as newly composed research works, can be identified as having had a teaching function. The question of relevance, organization, and content of teaching in the highly innovative context of the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy of the third/ninth century is historiographically significant beyond the recovery of historical details about texts and their character.

Matèries

Àrab
Història de la ciència
Universitats i ensenyament

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