Dividing Science by Ten
The Ġāyat al-ḥakīm (“the Aim of the Sage”), the Arab ancestor of the celebrated Picatrix on astral magic, includes a curious tenfold classification of the sciences, with five disciplines said to be compulsory “for the legislators” and five “for the philosopher”. This classification was once describe...
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Brill
[2020]
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Studia Islamica
Year: 2020, Volume: 115, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-32 |
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B Ġāyat al-ḥakīm B Roger Bacon B Secretorum Secretorum B Ādāb al-falāsifa B Sindbādnāma B Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica B classification of science B Girgīs al-Makīn |
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