'Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam
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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
顿翱滨:听2. Science and Art: Anatomical illustrations in early Islamic optics
Perri Sparnon
顿翱滨:听3. The imperial Mughal hunt as a pursuit of knowledge
Shaha Parpia
顿翱滨:听4. The House of Stars: Astronomy and the architecture of new science in early modern Lucknow (1831-49)
Katharine Bartsch and Peter Scriver
顿翱滨:听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
顿翱滨:听6. The Islamisation of听士颈濒尘: Ideals and realities in a globalised world
SM Mehboobul Hassan Bukhari
顿翱滨:听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
顿翱滨:听8.听士滨濒尘听and the human body: Al-Suhraward墨鈥檚 concept of the illuminated temple
Faris Hajamaideen
顿翱滨:听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
顿翱滨:听10.听士滨濒尘听or fashion? The question of identity in the batik designs of Java
James Bennett
顿翱滨:听11. Curating听士颈濒尘: Chapter or bridge?
Sam Bowker
顿翱滨:听
This edited volume of chapters resulted from an international conference held at the 成人大片 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.
About the editor
Samer Akkach听is an established scholar in two fields of study, architectural history and theory, and Islamic studies, and has a cross-cultural background, interdisciplinary research interests, and a unique mix of expertise. He听founded the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) in 1997. His scholarly publications include听Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas听(2005),听鈥楢bd al-Ghan墨 al-N膩bulus墨: Islam and the Enlightenment听(2007), and, most recently,听Damascene Diaries: A Reading of the Cultural History of Ottoman Damascus in the Eighteenth Century听(2015).