Greek Thought Arabic Culture

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415061326

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

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.

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134926350

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

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.

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134926343

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

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.

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:501318408

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317847489

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How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs by Delacy O'Leary Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Daiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004441774

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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond by Hans Daiber Pdf

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

Author : Felicitas Opwis,David Reisman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004202740

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Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion by Felicitas Opwis,David Reisman Pdf

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.

Author : Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134905836

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Naguib Mahfouz by Rasheed El-Enany Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Adamson,Richard C. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107494695

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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy by Peter Adamson,Richard C. Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521898072

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture by Dwight F. Reynolds Pdf

An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aesthetics, Arab
ISBN : 1558761993

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Beauty in Arabic Culture by Doris Behrens-Abouseif Pdf

A specialist in Islamic architecture and social history, Behrens-Abouseif (U. of Munich) surveys the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century CE, drawing on Arabic texts in philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, literary criticism, historiography, and the Thousand and One Nights. She shows how beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient. The original German Schonheit in der Arabischen Kultur was published by C. D. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, in 1998. Paper edition (199-3), $22.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971585

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Success and Suppression by Dag Nikolaus Hasse Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840330

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Classical Arabic Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Daiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004222274

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Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures by Hans Daiber Pdf

The monograph aims at a historical and bibliographical survey of the qur??nic and rational world-view of early Islam, of the period of translations from Greek into Syriac and Arabic, and of the impact of Islamic thought on Europe.

Author : Ahmed Alwishah,Josh Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107101739

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Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition by Ahmed Alwishah,Josh Hayes Pdf

Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.