Science and Civilization in Islam has remained unsurpassed as the authoritative statement on this subject. With his characteristic breadth of learning, clarity of exposition and insight, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents here for the first time a full picture of Islamic science, not as a chapter in the history of Western science, but as an integral aspect of Islamic civilisation and the Islamic intellectual tradition. By means of an historical presentation, an analysis of its forms, including the use of passages from the ...
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Science and Civilization in Islam has remained unsurpassed as the authoritative statement on this subject. With his characteristic breadth of learning, clarity of exposition and insight, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents here for the first time a full picture of Islamic science, not as a chapter in the history of Western science, but as an integral aspect of Islamic civilisation and the Islamic intellectual tradition. By means of an historical presentation, an analysis of its forms, including the use of passages from the writings of many Muslim scientists and philosophers, the author is able to convey not only a sense of the operative context of Islamic science but he also demonstrates its inter-relatedness with the sapiential wisdom on which it is based. An introductory chapter provides the reader with a necessary orientation to the subject according to the principles of Islam, while subsequent chapters survey the whole spectrum of the individual sciences from cosmology, philosophy, and theology to alchemy, physics, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine concluding with a chapter on the gnostic tradition. For this edition, Dr Nasr has written a preface surveying the fields covered in the book since its first appearance in 1968, and has provided a supplement that brings the Bibliography up to date.
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Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Minor shelfwear to dust jacket. Slight edgewear and bumping. Clean pages and tight binding. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
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Book Octavo, hardcover, VG in VG yellow and red decorative dj. Pamphlet "Understanding Island and the Muslims" laid in. Both books clean and unmarked. the first one-volume work in English to deal with every branch of Islamic science and to approach it not from the Western view-point but as it is understood by the Muslims themselves. Book is 384 pp. including index. Stapled pamphlet is about 200 pp. heavily illustrated. 384 pp.
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Very Good Minus. No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. First edition. Trade soft cover. Published NY: Plume/New American Library, 1970, first printing. 8vo., xiv+384 pp., illus. Age toning along the edges of margins, some fade to spine and cover. Very good minus.
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Good. Size: 8x5x0; tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, ex-library copy with usual library markings, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
