TY  - BOOK
ED  - Akkach, Samer
AB  - This edited volume of chapters resulted from an international conference held at the University of Adelaide in July 2016 under the same title to explore the multifaceted concept of ʿilm in Islam — its agency and manifestations in the connected realms of science, religion, and the arts. The aim is to explore the Islamic civilisational responses to major shifts in the concept of ‘knowledge’ that took place in the post-mediaeval period, and especially within the context of the ‘early modern’. It asserts that the true value of knowledge lies in its cross-civilisational reach, as when the development of knowledge in pre-modern Islam exerted profound changes onto the Europeans, whose resurgence in the early modern period has in turn forced massive changes onto the Islamic worldview and its systems of knowledge. Now the landscape of knowledge has significantly changed, the Muslim mind, which has been historically calibrated to be particularly sensitive towards knowledge, can and should open to new horizons of knowing where science, religion, and art can meet again on freshly cultivated and intellectually fertile grounds.
DO  - 10.20851/ilm-1
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1002623
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1082959121
KW  - ilm
KW  - islam
KW  - art
KW  - science
KW  - religion
KW  - islamic worldview
KW  - premodern islam
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e73ba616-7913-4b19-b327-699037955d78/ilm-1-ebook.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27386
PB  - University of Adelaide Press
PP  - Adelaide
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781925261769
TI  - Ilm : Science, Religion and Art in Islam
ER  - 
