Dimitri Gutas

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture (eBook, PDF)

The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134926350
• Artikelnr.: 38255627

Autorenporträt

Dimitri Gutas is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation (1975), Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (1988), and, with Gerhard Endress, A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (1992-).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Translation and Empire
Chapter 1 The Background of the Translation Movement
Chapter 2 Al-Man??r
Chapter 3 Al-Mahd? and his Sons
Chapter 4 Al-Ma'm?n
Part 2 Translation and Society
Chapter 5 Translation in the Service of Applied and Theoretical Knowledge
Chapter 6 Patrons, Translators, Translations
Chapter 7 Translation and History
Chapter 8 Epilogue