Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world /

Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / edited by Gerhard Endress ; preface by Abou Filali-Ansary. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. - xvii, 234 p. ; 25 cm. - Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v. 61 0169-8729 ; .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index.

9004146970 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004146976

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic--History and criticism.
Islamic learning and scholarship--History.

AG10.55 / .O74 2006

039/.927