Title: | UTCP Lecture on Understanding Islam #4 "Guardians of the Islamic Knowledge: A Portrait of an Erudite in the 12th Century Eastern Iran"Finished |
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Date: | Fri, 8 Feb, 2008. 16h30-18h30 |
Place: | Building 18 Collaboration Room No.1, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo |
Speaker: Kazuo Morimoto (Associate Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo)
From Prof. Morimoto
It is important to understand someone's background or some group's history when we consider his/her or the group's thoughts. To learn traditional Islamic knowledge, I shall present lifestyles of guardians of such knowledge and their environments. Concretely I shall talk about Ibn Funduq who lived in the 12th century Eastern Iran.