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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Main Author: Callataÿ, Godefroid de 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Studia Islamica
Year: 2020, Volume: 115, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-32
Further subjects:B Agapius
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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