'Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam

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edited by Samer Akkach



FREE | 2019 | Ebook (PDF) |听978-1-925261-76-9 | 238 pp

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    PART I:听士滨尝惭听AS SCIENCE

    1. Polarising听士颈濒尘: Science and religion in early modern Islam
    Samer Akkach
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    2. Science and Art: Anatomical illustrations in early Islamic optics
    Perri Sparnon
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    3. The imperial Mughal hunt as a pursuit of knowledge
    Shaha Parpia
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    4. The House of Stars: Astronomy and the architecture of new science in early modern Lucknow (1831-49)
    Katharine Bartsch and Peter Scriver
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    PART II: 士'ILM听AS RELIGION

    5. 鈥楤y the pen!鈥: Spreading听士颈濒尘听in Indonesia through Quranic calligraphy
    Virginia Hooker
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    6. The Islamisation of听士颈濒尘: Ideals and realities in a globalised world
    SM Mehboobul Hassan Bukhari
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    7. In between the mind and the heart: K膩tip 脟elebi鈥檚 concept of听士颈濒尘
    Selen Morko莽
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    8.听士滨濒尘听and the human body: Al-Suhraward墨鈥檚 concept of the illuminated temple
    Faris Hajamaideen
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    PART III:听士滨尝惭听AS ART

    9.听士滨濒尘听and the 鈥榓rchitecture of happiness鈥: The Ottoman imperial palace at Edirne/Adrianople, 1451-1877
    Susan Scollay
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    10.听士滨濒尘听or fashion? The question of identity in the batik designs of Java
    James Bennett
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    11. Curating听士颈濒尘: Chapter or bridge?
    Sam Bowker
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This edited volume of chapters resulted from an international conference held at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide in July 2016 under the same title to explore the multifaceted concept of听士颈濒尘听in Islam 鈥 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 鈥榢nowledge鈥 that took place in the post-mediaeval period, and especially within the context of the 鈥榚arly modern鈥.

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.