Author : Hannah Cotton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521875811
This book considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad.
Author : Speros Vryonis
Publisher : Acls History E-Book Project
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781597404761
Author : Dr Bruno De Nicola
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1472448634
This volume offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Essays examine the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, consider encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life, and focus on the process of Islamisation as understood from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence.
Author : Majid Fakhry
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231132206
The first comprehensive survey of Islamic philosophy from the seventh century to the present, this classic discusses Islamic thought and its effect on the cultural aspects of Muslim life. Fakhry shows how Islamic philosophy has followed from the earliest times a distinctive line of development, which gives it the unity and continuity that are the marks of the great intellectual movements of history.
Author : Gerhard Endress
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Christianity
ISBN :
Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226472477
Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.
Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317847482
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 : Scott B. Noegel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0810866102
Both traditions recognize and draw theological and historical lessons from some of the same narrative sources, but this is the first comparative resource to provide interdisciplinary coverage of the history and textual sources associated with prophets and prophecy. This thorough treatment of a difficult and increasingly controversial subject area will encourage and cultivate knowledge and understanding. Entries are drawn from five main fields: 1. Ancient Near Eastern Studies 2. Bible and Biblical Studies 3. Judaism and Jewish Studies 4. The Quran and Quranic Studies 5. Islam and Islamic Studies Noegel and Wheeler treat each entry as a compilation of relevant data culled from these different traditions in order to take the reader beyond the expected parameters of research. Originally envisioned as an initial resource for students of comparative religion, the extensive chronology, bibliography, list of acronyms, and the overall accessibility of the passages make the Dictionary suitable for a much wider audience.
Author : Aziz Al-Azmeh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 110772936X
Based on epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional literary sources and critical review of the extensive relevant scholarship, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the development of the imperial monotheism of the New Rome, and considers the history of the Arabs as an integral part of Late Antiquity, including Arab ethnogenesis and the emergence of what was to become Muslim monotheism, comparable with the emergence of other monotheisms from polytheistic systems. Topics discussed include the emergence and development of the Muhammadan polity and its new cultic deity and associated ritual, the constitution of the Muslim canon, and the development of early Islam as an imperial religion. Intended principally for scholars of Late Antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research.
