Format:
XXI, 587 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9780521327633
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9781139424912
Series Statement:
The Cambridge history of Arabic literature
Content:
The five centuries of the 'Abbasid period (eighth to thirteenth centuries AD) were the golden age of Arabic literature. They saw the appearance not only of poetry and belles-lettres (which are covered in a previous volume), but also of an extensive body of writings concerned with subjects ranging from theology and law to history and the natural sciences. This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature surveys the most important of these writings, including the literature of Sunnism and Shi'ism, Arabic philosophy, Sufism, Islamic law, grammar, lexicography, administration, historiography, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, geography, alchemy and medicine. It contains separate chapters on six of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages, as well as on the Arabic literature of the Christians and Jews who lived under the rule of the 'Abbasid caliphate, and includes a study of one of the great cultural movements of the period, the translations from Greek into Arabic
Content:
Sunnī theology / Salvador Gómez Nogales -- Shīī theological literature / I.K.A. Howard -- Ibāḍī theological literature / J.C. Wilkinson -- Quranic exegesis / John Burton -- The prose literature of Ṣufism / Caesar E. Farah -- Philosophical literature / Muhsin Mahdi -- Arabic lexicography / M.G. Carter -- Arabic grammar / M.G. Carter -- Islamic legal literature / P.W. Baker, I.D. Edge -- Administrative literature / C.E. Bosworth -- Arabic biographical writing / M.J.L. Young -- History and historians / Claude Cahen -- Faṭimid history and historians / Abbas Hamdani -- Mathematics and applied science / Donald R. Hill -- Astronomy / David A. King -- Astrology / David Pingree -- Geographical and navigational literature / J.F.P. Hopkins
Content:
The literature of Arabic alchemy / Donald R. Hill -- Arabic medical literature / Haskell D. Isaacs -- Al-Kindī / Fritz W. Zimmermann -- Al-Rāzī / Albert Z. Iskandar -- Al-Fārābī / Alfred L. Ivry -- Ibn Sīnā / Salvador Gómez Nogales -- Al-Bīrūnī and the sciences of his time / George Saliba -- Al-Ghazālī / Adīb Nāyif Diyāb -- Christian Arabic literature in the Abbasid period / Samir Khalil Samir -- Judaeo-Arabic literature / Paul B. Fenton -- The translation of Greek materials into Arabic / L.E. Goodman --Didactic verse / Ṣafā Khulūṣī
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2016)
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1017/CHO9781139424912
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