ORDERING KNOWLEDGE, ORDERING KNOWERS: Islamic Classifications of the Sciences and the Malay Ecology of Learning

Who decides what counts as knowledge—and who has the authority to decide who truly knows? For more than a millennium, Muslim thinkers did more than classify the sciences. They constructed architectures of knowledge linking truth, method, ethics, spiritual formation, education, authority, and the purposes for which knowledge should be pursued. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Knowers: Islamic Classific...