Keys to the Sciences

(Maqālīd Al-ʿulūm) a Gift for the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ On the Definitions of Technical Terms
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42335-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 112, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

Maqalid al-'ulum (Keys to the Sciences) is a significant source on definitions of Arabic scientific terms in the post-classical period. Composed by an anonymous author, it contains over eighteen hundred definitions in the realm of twenty-one religious, literary, and rational sciences. The work was dedicated to the Muzaffarid Shah Shuja', who ruled over Shiraz and its neighbouring regions from 759/1358 to 786/1384. The present volume contains a critical edition of Maqalid al-'ulum based on its three extant manuscripts. In the introduction, the editors review previous scholarship on the text, present an overview of patronage at the court of Shah Shuja' and identify some of the sources used by the author of the work. They suggest that the work in its structure mirrors Abu 'Abdullah Khwarazmi’s Mafatih al-'ulum, completed in 366/976.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dadkhah, Gholamreza

Pourjavady, Reza

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

English Section

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 A Review of the Previous Scholarship

2 Patronage at the Court of Shah Shuja'

3 The Structure and the Sources of the Work

4 Mafatih al-'ulum as the Model for Maqalid al-'ulum

5 Some Serendipitous Knowledge of the Author

6 Maqalid al-'ulum and the Ta'rifat: Similarities and Differences

7 The Question of the Reception of the Work

8 The Present Edition

Appendix 1: Other Works in Prose Dedicated to Shah Shuja? or His Viziers

Appendix 2: Sources of the Maqalid al-?ulum

Bibliography

Arabic Section

Table of Contents

Maqalid al-?ulum

Index of Technical Terms

Über Autor(innen)

Gholamreza Dadkhah is Research Scholar (Islamic philosophy), University of Tehran. Among his publications are the edition of Shams al-Din Samarqandi’s (d. 722/1322) Science of the Cosmos and the Soul (Mazda Publishers, 2014), and together with Asadollah Fallahi, Logic in Sixth/Twelfth Century Iran (The Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2018).

Reza Pourjavady, Ph.D. (Freie Universität Berlin, 2008), is Visiting Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. His publications include Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Din Mahmud al-Nayrizi and His Writings (Brill, 2011), and coauthored with Sabine Schmidtke, A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: 'Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammuna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings (Brill, 2006).