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|g CHAPTER 1:
|g CONTEXTUALIZING LEARNING AND TEACHING OF THE SCIENCES IN ISLAMICATE SOCIETIES, p.17 --
|g 1.1.
|t The Beginnings, p.18 --
|g 1.2.
|t The Early Abbasid Period, p.19 --
|g 1.3.
|t A Period of Consolidation, Synthesis, and Contests, p.21 --
|g 1.4.
|t Breakdown, Reorientation, and Reconfirmation in the Wake of the Mongol Conquest, p.24 --
|g 1.5.
|t Change as the Norm? A Further Wave of New Empires and Dynasties, p.26 --
|g 1.6.
|t Consolidation, Climax, and New Challenges, p27 --
|g 1.7.
|t Comparisons, p.30 --
|g 1.8.
|t Postface, p.31 --
|g CHAPTER 2:
|g TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT COURTS AND IN PRIVATE HOMES (EIGHT-TWELFTH CENTURIES), p.33 --
|g 2.1.
|t Limited Resources, p.35 --
|g 2.2.
|t Stories about the Transfer of Philosophy and Medicine from Alexandria to Baghdad, p.37 --
|g 2.3.
|t Teaching the Mathematical Sciences, p.38 --
|g 2.4.
|t Teachers and Students, p.42 --
|g 2.5.
|t Postface, p.65 --
|g CHAPTER 3:
|g SCHOOLS OF ADVANCED EDUCATION, p.67 --
|g 3.1.
|t The Legal Status and Formalities of Advanced Education, p.68 --
|g 3.2.
|t Teaching Non-Religious Disciplines at Religious Institutions, p.70 -- 3.3.
|t Processes of Professionalization and Specialization, p.71 --
|g 3.4.
|t Secretaries, Animals, and Foreigners, p.75 --
|g CHAPTER 4:
|g THE SCIENCES AT MADRASAS, p.77 --
|g 4.1.
|t Mathematical Disciplines, p.77 --
|g 4.2.
|t Medicine and Pharmacology, p.91 --
|g 4.3.
|t Natural Philosophy, p.98 --
|g 4.4.
|t Divination, Magic, Alchemy, p.107 --
|g 4.5.
|t Postface, p.111 --
|g CHAPTER 5:
|g OTHER TEACHING INSTITUTIONS, p.113 --
|g 5.1.
|t Learning and Teaching at Hospitals, p.115 --
|g 5.2.
|t Family Education, p.131 --
|g 5.3.
|t Travel for the Sake of Knowledge, p.135 --
|g 5.4.
|t Postface, p.144 --
|g CHAPTER 6:
|g TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS, p.147 --
|g 6.1.
|t Meetings, Teachers, and Goals, p.149 --
|g 6.2.
|t Reflections on Creativity and Professional Control, p.155 --
|g 6.3.
|t Reading, Writing, Speaking, Seeing, p.161 --
|g 6.4.
|t Tradition, Ingenuity, and Discursive Method, p.168 --
|g 6.5.
|t "The Etiquette of Scholarly Disputation", p.177 --
|g 6.6.
|t Commentaries and Super-Commentaries, p.181 --
|g 6.7.
|t Postface, p.185 --
|g CHAPTER 7:
|g ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE SCIENCE, p.187 --
|g 7.1.
|t Philosophical Perspectives and Works, p.194 --
|g 7.2.
|t Administrators and Their Encyclopaedias and Knowledge Systems, p.204 --
|g 7.3.
|t Madrasa Teachers as Writers of Summas and Divisions, p.211 --
|g 7.4.
|t Postface, p.221 --
|g CHAPTER 8:
|g TEACHING LITERATURE AND ITS TEMPORAL GEOGRAPHIES, p. 223 --
|t 8.1.
|t Euclid's Elements and the Middle Books, p.227 --
|g 8.2.
|t Other School Texts for Geometry, p.237 --
|g 8.3.
|t Arithmetic, Algebra, and Number Theory, p.239 --
|g 8.4.
|t Astronomy and Astrology, p.243 --
|g 8.5.
|t Medicine, p.247 --
|g 8.6.
|t Logic and Natural Philosophy, p.255 --
|g 8.7.
|t Postface, p.262.
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