Introduction - Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands

Authors

Carol Bier, The Textile MuseumFollow
Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University
Najm al-Din Yousefi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Date of this Version

2008

Document Type

Article

Citation

Iranian Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 4: Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184–1153 AH/800–1740 CE) , September 2008 , pp. 433 - 436.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00210860802246119

Comments

Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2008

Abstract

Two successive sessions held at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies in London (3-5 August 2006) mark the occasion for publishing the present volume. The organizers and session chairs, Elaheh Kheirandish and Carol Bier ("Geometry in Medieval Persian Sciences and the Arts") and Najm al-Din Yousefi ("Science and Technology in Medieval and Early Modern Iran") found sufficient common ground among their diverse subjects and approaches to collab orate on this special issue of Iranian Studies, with two immediate objectives: (1) To expose underrepresented areas within historical studies of the sciences and crafts with local and temporal coordinates specific to eastern Islamic lands of the third/ninth through the twelfth/eighteenth centuries. (2) To introduce analytical and interpretive frameworks that offer both historical and contemporary perspectives regarding the production of knowledge and its simultaneous expression in the sciences and crafts.