Teaching Learning Sciences Islamicate by Brentjes Sonja (3 results)

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Brossura. Condition: nuovo. Pages: 334 p. Illustrations:18 col., 4 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2018. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-57445-5. Paperback -- SUMMARY This book surveys teaching and learning in the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks also at developments in Iran, India, Anatolia, and Iraq. It discusses institutions of teaching and learning such as house and court teachers, madrasas, hospitals, in-family teaching, and travelling in search of knowledge, as well as the content of the various sciences taught by or at them. Methods of teaching and learning, teaching bestsellers and their geographical and temporal dissemination, as well as encyclopaedias and literature on the classification of the sciences are treated in further chapters. TABLE OF CONTENTS General Introduction Chapter 1: Contextualizing Learning and Teaching of the Sciences in Islamicate Societies Chapter 2: Teachers and Students at Courts and in Private Homes (8th-12th centuries) Chapter 3: Schools of Advanced Education Chapter 4: The Sciences at Madrasas Chapter 5: Other Teaching Institutions Chapter 6: Teaching and Learning Methods Chapter 7: Encyclopaedias and Classifications of the Sciences Chapter 8: Teaching Literature and Its Temporal Geographies Table 1 Islamicate Dynasties Prominently Mentioned in this Book Table 2: Ancient Scholars Table 3: Scholars from Islamicate Societies Table 4: Muslim Rulers Bibliography Index.…