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The genius of their age : Ibn Sina, Biruni and the lost enlightenment / S. Frederick Starr.

Author/creator Starr, S. Frederick
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Descriptionpages cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subject(s)
Portion of title Ibn Sina, Biruni and the lost enlightenment
Contents Together and apart -- Privileged prodigies -- Promise and disruption -- Caught in the whirlwind -- Arguing Aristotle -- Inventing a world history -- From peace to chaos -- Nemesis : Mahmud of Ghazni -- Ibn Sina, encyclopedist -- Expanding the known world -- Ibn Sina's adventures -- Biruni's masterpiece -- The canon of medicine -- Biruni's canon for Masud -- The cure -- Biruni's encore -- Ibn Sina's encore -- Biruni and Ibn Sina through the ages -- Biruni and Ibn Sani, a millennium on.
Abstract "This is a book about two of the most outstanding thinkers to have lived between ancient Greece and the European Renaissance: Ibn Sina and Biruni. Both are known to specialists who have explored and analyzed their writings (what remains of them) for 150 years. But the general public has yet to discover these men and to appreciate their achievements. I hope this will help in that effort"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023032523
ISBN9780197675557 (hardback)
ISBN(epub)

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