The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization : Qudāma b. Ja'far and his Kitāb al Kharāj wa-sinā'at al-kitāba /

This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups - savants, littérateurs, religious scholars, state officials - all brought...

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Main Author: Heck, Paul (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; 42.
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.

Subjects:

Classification.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic.

Islam and state > History > To 1500.

Islamic civilization.