Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Tawus and His Library (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)

Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Tawus and His Library (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)

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Radi al-Di Ibn Tawus (d. 664/1266 in Bagdad) was a major figure in the history of Shibi thought. He published works on subjects ranging from tradition (hadith) and polemics to history and astrology. Ibn Tawus was an avid bibliophile, and his various writings contain remarkably detailed information about the books that he owned or read. Kohlberg's book is divided into two main parts. The first surveys the life, working methods and literary output of Ibn Tawus and offers an extended analysis of his library. The second part is an annotated list of all the works (some 660 in number) cited by Ibn Tawus in his available writings. About a third of these works (both Sunni and Shibi) are not extant, and even the existence of some of them has hitherto not been known. The works cover a wide range of subjects, including Qurcanic exegesis, tradition, history, theology, astronomy and genealogy, and provides a detailed picture of the intellectual world of a medieval Muslim scholar. Prof. Kohlberg is a leading authority on Shibism, and his monograph is an unusual and important contribution both to the history of Islam and to the history of Arabic literature and science.

Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Tawus and His Library (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science),Etan Kohlberg,Brill Academic Publishers,9004095497,1193-1266,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,General,History,History: World,Ibn Tawus, Ali ibn Musa,Interior Design - General,Islamic Studies,Islamic countries,Knowledge and learning,Learning and scholarship,Library,Manuscripts, Medieval,Medieval, 500-1500,Muslims,Scholars, Muslim,Social Science,Sociology,Ibn Tawus, °Ali ibn Musá,Islam

Book Contents:

1. Modern Societies & the Science of Religions: Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer (Studies in the History of Religions, 95.)
2. Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
3. Mysticism and Politics: A Critical Reading of Fi Zilal Al- Qur'an by Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East ... Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
4. Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-Battle Narratives (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)
5. Naturwissenschaft Bei Den Arabern Im 10. Jahrhundert N. Chr. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
6. New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
7. Oral Performance and Its Context (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
8. Paper Details (The Details Series)
9. Paul and Philodemus: Adaptability in Epicurean and Early Christian Psychagogy (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)
10. People and Land in the Holiness Code: An Exegetical Study of the Ideational Framework of the Law in Leviticus 17-26 (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)

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