Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures Ghent University
KNOW is the first comprehensive study of polymathy and interdisciplinarity in premodern Islam. The project sets out to write a history
of knowledge that takes the interaction between disciplines as its primary subject. The projectās historical framework is the postformative period, 1200-1800 CE, which saw the rise of new institutions of learning, the proliferation of libraries, the formation and
integration of disciplines and ...