Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004153868)

Vendor: Franz Rosenthal
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$125.00
$125.00
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Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam

$125.00

Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam

$125.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for 'ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.' There is no branch of Muslim intellectual and daily life that remained untouched by the all-pervasive attitude towards 'knowledge' as something of supreme value for Muslim being.
With a new foreword by Dimitri Gutas.

Author: Franz Rosenthal
ISBN-10: 9004153861
ISBN-13: 9789004153868
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2006
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 3
By Franz Rosenthal
By Franz Rosenthal
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Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Semitic Studies and scholar of Arabic literature and Islam. Professor Rosenthal was a prolific scholar whose publications ranged from a monograph on Humor in Early Islam to a three-volume annotated translation of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun to a Grammar of Biblical Aramaic.

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