Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience
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This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways did that experience constitute science? Answering these questions, the authors critique the trajectory of most existing histories of the period, which tend to reduce “experience” to empirical method or practice. This view reflects the emphasis that histories of modern science, especially of the Scientific Revolution, have placed on empiricism—the standard against which Islamic actors were then measured. This book offers a new historiography, arguing that experience had a far wider scope in the world of Islamic science. Combining an innovative theoretical framework with three case studies and a reflective epilogue by renowned experts in the field, this work offers the history of science a solid foundation on which to build its analyses of premodern science and the modality, scope, and role of experience therein. As a result, it speaks to specialists in the history of premodern Islamic science and historians of science in general to reconsider their historiographical assumptions.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Illuminates the modality, scope, and role of experience in premodern Islamic science Offers an innovative historiographical approach to premodern science Presents new research on previously neglected areas of Islamic scientific history
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Hannah C. Erlwein
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“The edited volume Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience delivers on its promise by offering fresh and engaging insights to a discipline in notable need of critical reflection. … This insightful volume demonstrates the potential of extending its methodological approach to further branches of Islamic science, highlighting a promising and needed direction for future research. It offers a wealth of material for both teaching and discussion for historians of science and intellectual historians ... .” (Razieh S. Mousavi, Isis, Vol. 117 (1), March, 2026)
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