@article{M3EB9F1B9,
title = "Hybrid History: Towards an Entangled History of Islamic Astronomy as a Global Phenomenon",
journal = "Acta Via Serica",
year = "2019",
issn = "2508-5824",
doi = "10.22679/avs.2019.4.2.005",
author = "Rüdiger Lohlker",
keywords = "Islamic Astronomy, Observatories, Samarqand, History of Sciences, Global History",
abstract = "This study presents a new conceptualization of the history of Islamic astronomy. Islamic history is an embedded global cultural phenomenon and will be analyzed at different levels: a) the history of institutional aspects (observatories, including buildings), b) instruments, c) manuscripts, and d) scholars. This phenomenon will be analyzed as a multi-lingual phenomenon with Arabic as the language of sciences as a starting point. Although this is not a study of a geographical region in a narrow sense, it is a historical note on the entanglement of research written in Arabic, Persian and other languages and contextualized in a framework reaching geographically far beyond the confines of the Islamic world and being part of global history."
}