Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies

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<P>The <I>Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies </I>provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century.</P><P>Across six sections, a group of subject experts discuss and analyze scientific practices across a wide range of Islamicate societies. The authors take into consideration several contexts in which science was practiced, ranging from intellectual traditions and persuasions to institutions, such as courts, schools, hospitals, and observatories, to the materiality of scientific practices, including the arts and craftsmanship. Chapters also devote attention to scientific practices of minority communities in Muslim majority societies, and Muslim minority groups in societies outside the Islamicate world, thereby allowing readers to better understand the opportunities and constraints of scientific practices under varying local conditions.</P><P>Through replacing Islam with Islamicate societies, the book opens up ways to