An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy - Kitāb Ta'dīl Hay'at Al-Aflāk of Sadr Al-Sharī'a. Edited with Translation and Commentary

"An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy is an edition, translation of and commentary on the astronomical work of the fourteenth-century Central Asian religious scholar sadr al-Shar?'a al-Bukh?r?. sadr al-Shar?'a develops the works of the thirteenth-century Maragha researchers, which set the tone for the astronomical research until the eventual demise of Ptolemaic astronomy.
This work elucidates the development and achievement of the long tradition of reforming Ptolemaic astronomy. It corroborates other evidence that scientific creativity persisted well beyond the eleventh century, a period often viewed as an age of cultural decline and stagnation. sadr al-Shar?'a's knowledge of and competence in a diverse variety of disciplines is a compelling example of the state of education and level of scholarship in a fourteenth-century Muslim urban setting.

About the author

Ahmad S. Dallal, Ph.D. (1990) in Islamic Studies, Columbia University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Yale University. He has written on Islamic science and Islamic revivalist thought.

Product details

• Authors: Ahmad Dallal
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1995
• EAN: 9789004099685
• ISBN: 978-90-04-09968-5
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 245 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 966 g
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology a
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