TY  - JOUR
T1  - Hybrid History: Towards an Entangled History of Islamic Astronomy as a Global Phenomenon
AU  - Lohlker, Rüdiger 
JO  - Acta Via Serica
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/1/1
DO  - 10.22679/avs.2019.4.2.005
KW  - Islamic Astronomy
KW  - Observatories
KW  - Samarqand
KW  - History of Sciences
KW  - Global History
AB  - 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.