Organizing knowledge

Description:

"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 mediaeval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences."--Jacket.

subjects: History,  Islamic learning and scholarship,  Kennis,  History and criticism,  Arabic Encyclopedias and dictionaries,  Encyclopedieën,  Encyclopedias and dictionaries, history and criticism

Places: 2.