Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience

by Hannah Erlwein and Katja Krause

This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways did that experience constitute science? Answering these questions, the authors critique the trajectory of most existing histories of the period, which tend to reduce "experience" to empirical method or practice. This view reflects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031760840
• ISBN13: 9783031760846
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 101 Pages