Waters Above, Waters Below: Conceptions of the Water Cycle in Abbasid-Era Thought
This article investigates philosophical and scientific thinkers’ conceptions of the water cycle during the Abbasid period. It focuses on authors who disregarded or negated the subterranean generation of water envisaged in Aristotelian doctrines, which form the mainstream of Arabo-Islamic natural phi...
| Subtitles: | Managing and Understanding Water in the Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2025
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| In: |
Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-112 |
| Further subjects: | B
Hydrology
B natural philosophy B water cycle B history of science |
| Online Access: |
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