The Rise of CollegesThis study was undertaken in order to achieve a better understanding of a pivotal period in Islamic intellectual history. Intellectual movements become more intelligible when studied in close reference to the forces which produced them. The form and content of intellectual works are intelligible in the extent to which the methods of instruction, study and composition are understood in their essential details. Author: George Makdisi Binding: Paperback

bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states

engineering

it has only relatively recently begun to receive attention in the non-Islamic world

a critical discussion of principles of law that Plato thought the Greeks might accept

and comical rules for servants

ritual sacrifice

Binding: Hardcover | solid black cover

But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation

the majority of works by Muslim writers abound in allusions to its precepts and quotations from its pages

The results are magnificent in their beauty and awe-inspiring in their execution

Author: Sherman A

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