title: Arabic traces in Alexander Humboldt’s Kosmos and Central Asian geographies
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metadata.value: Quintern, Detlev
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-28T12:20:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-28T12:20:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Quintern D. Arabic traces in Alexander Humboldt’s Kosmos and Central Asian geographies. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, pp. 424–435.
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu13.2018.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15320
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Alexander Humboldt ranks among the scholars of Weimar Classicism who not only
  appreciated Arabic contributions to the universal heritage of sciences but revived a long lost
  cosmological and universal understanding of sciences, tracing back to flourishing periods of
  the Abbasids from early 9th century onwards. A universalistic approach to historical layers
  of sciences follows long-term developments, retracing historical layers in sciences’ history
  while overcoming outdated Eurocentric concepts of periodization (middle ages, modernity
  etc.). The Abbasid Era under Caliph Ma’mūn in the first third of 9th ACE with Baghdad at
  its center introduced an Early Enlightenment reaching finally Middle Europe. Scientific
  classifications were approved, interdisciplinary, experimental sciences enhanced and scientific
  travelling flourished. Alexander Humboldt not only reflected upon Arabic contributions to
  the universal heritage of sciences but followed up Arabic universalism himself, applying it
  during his scientific travelling. The Humboldtian approach combined scientific traveling with
  interdisciplinary observations, determinations (geographic coordinates), and classifications
  from the very beginnings onwards. When traveling Central Asia in 1829, he especially showed
  an interest to Arabic contributions in the field of geography and cartography. Humboldt had
  not only studied Arabic sources on Central Asia but compared historical coordinates with
  his own measurements. The source studies of Fuat Sezgin (1924–2018) enable nowadays
  to comprehend the important contributions of Arabic-Islamic geography and cartography,
  and while contextualizing the rich fund historically, Eurocentric distortions in the history of
  science, here geography and cartography, losing their relevancy.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander Humboldt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arabic geography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arabic cartography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Arabic traces in Alexander Humboldt’s Kosmos and Central Asian geographies
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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