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2 - Constructing Knowledge in Morocco between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2021

Justin K. Stearns
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New York University - Abu Dhabi
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In order to reconstruct the nature and place of the natural sciences in Early Modern Moroccan thought, this chapter reviews biobiogragraphical dictionaries, intellectual autobiographies, and works on the categorization and transmission of the sciences from the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. This survey reveals that the natural sciences were an accepted, if minority pursuit, and that prominent scholars such as al-Yūsī saw them as divinely revealed and playing an important role in furthering the good of the Muslim community.

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Revealed Sciences
The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
, pp. 73 - 119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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