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      Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge

      Sonja Brentjes

      A collection of articles that deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical…

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      The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context

      Sonja Brentjes

      This book reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries.

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      Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies

      Sonja Brentjes

      This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and…

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      Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World

      How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed, shedding light on the role…

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      Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

      The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each…

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      Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

      Investigates the outsourcing of military units and skills across religious and political boundaries. The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred…

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      Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries

      This book provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century.

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      Premodern Translation: Comparative Approaches to Cross-Cultural Transformations

      This edited collection offers six essays on translations and their producers and users in premodern societies, which explore possibilities for contextualizing and questioning the well-established narratives of translations and translating…

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      Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity

      This book surveys how humans across Eurasia depicted their knowledge of the heavens over a period of nearly 4,000 years. Frequently focusing on enigmatic objects, the authors present a wide…

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      Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity

      This book surveys how humans across Eurasia depicted their knowledge of the heavens over a period of nearly 4,000 years.

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      Narratives on Translation Across Eurasia and Africa: From Babylonia to Colonial India

      What has driven acts of translation in the past, and what were the conditions that shaped the results? In this volume, scholars from across the humanities interrogate narratives on the…

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      1001 Distortions: How (Not) to Narrate History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Non-Western Cultures

      This book reflects on debates among historians of science, medicine and technology as well as Islamicate societies about fundamental questions of how we think and write about the intellec-tual and…

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