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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415061322
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought, Arabic Culture written by Dimitri Gutas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translated into Arabic. This book explores the social, political and ideological factors operative in early 'Abbasid society that sustained the translation movement.

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926359
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought, Arabic Culture written by Dimitri Gutas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Greco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon. Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought, Arabic Culture written by Dimitri Gutas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs

Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317847482
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs written by Delacy O'Leary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926340
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought, Arabic Culture written by Dimitri Gutas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Greco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon. Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.

Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion

Author : Felicitas Opwis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004202749
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion by : Felicitas Opwis

Download or read book Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion written by Felicitas Opwis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.

Classical Arabic Philosophy

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840338
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Classical Arabic Philosophy written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.

Success and Suppression

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971582
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Success and Suppression written by Dag Nikolaus Hasse and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898072
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture written by Dwight F. Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

Arabic Oration: Art and Function

Author : Tahera Qutbuddin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395806
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Oration: Art and Function written by Tahera Qutbuddin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this foundational prose genre, analysing its oral aesthetics and its political, military, and religious functions in early Islamic civilization, tracing its echoes in Muslim public address today.

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494699
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy written by Peter Adamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It also includes chapters on areas of philosophical inquiry across the tradition, such as ethics and metaphysics. Finally, it includes chapters on later Islamic thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers.

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Author : Ahmed Alwishah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107101735
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition written by Ahmed Alwishah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.

The House of Wisdom

Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101476230
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The House of Wisdom written by Jim Al-Khalili and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling flowering?

The House of Wisdom

Author : Jonathan Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191907
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The House of Wisdom written by Jonathan Lyons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. T here, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle. I n the royal library of Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections in Europe held several dozen volumes, the House of Wisdom boasted as many as four hundred thousand. Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims, a handful of intrepid Christian scholars, thirsty for knowledge, traveled to Arab lands and returned with priceless jewels of science, medicine, and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance. I n this brilliant, evocative book, Lyons shows just how much "Western" culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization, and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.

Picturing the Islamicate World

Author : Nadja Danilenko
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004440097
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Islamicate World written by Nadja Danilenko and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms (10th century C.E.), the world map and twenty regional maps complement the text to a reference book of the territories under Muslim rule. Rather than shaping the Islamicate world according to political or religious concerns, al-Iṣṭakhrī chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī’s strategy seems to have paid off. By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.

Naguib Mahfouz

Author : Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134905831
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Naguib Mahfouz written by Rasheed El-Enany and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

Author : De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Thought and Its Place in History written by De Lacy O'Leary and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of Muslim influence through Spain is the one instance in which we seem to get an alien culture entering into this Roman tradition and exercising a disturbing influence. In fact, this Muslim culture was at bottom essentially a part of the Hellenistic-Roman material, even the theology of Islam being formulated and developed from Hellenistic sources, but Islam had so long lived apart from Christendom and its development had taken place in surroundings so different that it seems a strange and alien thing. Its greatest power lay in the fact that it presented the old material in an entirely fresh form.