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The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of medieval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences.The volume begins with a general discussion of the concept of encyclopædia. Successive chapters explore the bases of authority in the institutions of religion and law; biographical literature and handbooks of law; compendia of scientific and philosophical learning based on Iranian and Greek sources; and the more specialised expositions of mathematics and philosophy. The special character of Muslim institutions, their teaching traditions and syllabi is also put into perspective. This is a reference work for the principal genres of 'enyclopædic' outlines and manuals - biography, legal handbooks, historiography of knowledge transmission, cosmography, and the philosophical sciences - and a major contribution to the literary and intellectual history.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Encyclopédies et dictionnaires arabes --- Musulmans --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- History and criticism --- History --- Encyclopédies et dictionnaires arabes --- Savoir et érudition --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic - History and criticism --- Islamic learning and scholarship - History --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Arabic encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Intellectual life

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V.Y. Mudimbe est connu comme une figure de proue de la pensée africaine. Avec L'Odeur du père, L'Écart et The Invention of Africa , il s'est frayé une trace toujours plus importante dans le cheminement des études africaines, dans le cadre des études littéraires et culturelles, de la philosophie et des théories postcoloniales. Auteur d'une œuvre romanesque et poétique remarquable, Mudimbe n'avait jamais à ce jour été présenté dans la totalité de son œuvre vaste, embrassant la philosophie et la fiction romanesque. La monographie de Kasereka Kavwahirehi vient combler cette lacune et, de surcroît, pour la première fois l'œuvre littéraire et scientifique, francophone et anglophone de Mudimbe est abordée dans ses liaisons organiques et ses lignes de force. Suivant Mudimbe dans sa traversée des frontières, territoriale et linguistique, générique et disciplinaire, Kasereka Kavwahirehi élucide les enjeux esthétiques, épistémologiques et existentiels de la démarche mudimbienne dont le but ultime est la fondation d'un nouveau discours africain sur le monde, libéré des pesanteurs coloniales. Les contextes existentiels, idéologiques et culturels africains, européens et américains de sa prise de parole et le rapport à ses sources d'inspiration (Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre, Jean de la Croix, Senghor, Mabika Kalanda, etc.) sont analysés pour mieux apprécier son travail d'appropriation recréatrice et éclairer la controverse qui accompagne sa réception dans certains milieux académiques. En fin de compte, cette œuvre paradoxale apparaît à la fois comme une archéologie du discours africain et « un récit pour soi » ou une histoire du sujet africain allant de la réification coloniale à la liberté de se poser comme la source d'un discours à travers lequel il réinvente l'Afrique et lui donne une nouvelle destinée loin des pièges réductionnistes, que ceux-ci relèvent de l'eurocentrisme ou de l'afrocentrisme.

Mudimbe, Valentine Y. --- Humanities --- Sciences humaines --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education

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An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. In part, it is the long-overdue story of a man who lent his name to the Michelson and Morley Ether-Drift Experiment, and who conclusively established the atomic weight of oxygen. It is also the untold story of science in provincial America: what Hamerla presents as science on the "American research frontier." Hamerla carefully and usefully directs our attention away from more familiar sites of scientific activity during the nineteenth century, such as Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins. In so doing, he expands and reframes our understanding of how—and where—important scientific inquiry occurred during these years: not only in the Northeastern centers of elite academia, but also in the vastly different cultural contexts of Hudson and Cleveland, Ohio. This important examination of Morley’s struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding of science during a foundational period, and leads to a number of unique conclusions that are vital to the literature and historiography of science. By revealing important aspects of the scientific culture of the American heartland, An American Scientist on the Research Frontier deepens our understanding of an individual scientist and of American science more broadly. In so doing, Hamerla changes the way we approach and understand the creation of scientific knowledge, scientific communities, and the history of science itself.

Research --- Scientists --- History. --- Morley, Edward Williams, --- Science --- Science research --- Scientific research --- Information services --- Learning and scholarship --- Methodology --- Research teams