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Maqālīd al-ʿulūm (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 Shāh Shujāʿ, who ruled over Shiraz and its neighbouring regions from 759/1358 to 786/1384. The present volume contains a critical edition of Maqālīd al-ʿulūm 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 Shāh Shujāʿ and identify some of the sources used by the author of the work. They suggest that the work in its structure mirrors Abū ʿAbdullāh Khwārazmī’s Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm, completed in 366/976.
Price: $148.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
05 March 2020
ISBN: 9789004423350
Format: Hardcover
"Die Edition mit ihrem Apparat ist sehr schön gestaltet und bietet einen guten Ansatzinpunkt, um die Maqālīd al-ʿulūm in die wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Diskussion einzubinden. Insgesamt. Insgesamt handeltes sich um eine sehr erfreuliche Ergänzung der vorhandenen Literatur zur islamischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte." Rüdiger Lohlker, in Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes 111 (2021)
Gholamreza Dadkhah is Research Scholar (Islamic philosophy), University of Tehran. Among his publications are the edition of Shams al-Dīn Samarqandī’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-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings (Brill, 2011), and coauthored with Sabine Schmidtke, A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings (Brill, 2006).
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-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings (Brill, 2011), and coauthored with Sabine Schmidtke, A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings (Brill, 2006).