Format:
1 Online-Ressource (376 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780520974821
Series Statement:
Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship 3
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. TRANSLATION -- 1. A Scholar and His City -- 2. A Translation Program -- 3. A Byzantine Ecclesiastical Curriculum -- PART II. PHILOSOPHY -- 4. Purpose in the Prefaces -- 5. Education in the Margins -- 6. Logic -- 7. Physics -- 8. Cosmology -- 9. Astronomy -- 10. A Shared Scholarly Culture -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Arabic Index -- Greek Index -- Index of Manuscripts
Content:
What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapted and reinvigorated this ancient philosophical heritage? Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch tackles these questions by examining the work of the eleventh-century Christian theologian Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, who undertook an ambitious program of translating Greek texts, ancient and contemporary, into Arabic. Poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his home city of Antioch and the Arabic-speaking cultural universe of Syria-Palestine, Egypt, Aleppo, and Iraq, Ibn al-Fadl engaged intensely with both Greek and Arabic philosophy, science, and literary culture. Challenging the common narrative that treats Christian and Muslim scholars in almost total isolation from each other in the Middle Ages, Alexandre M. Roberts reveals a shared culture of robust intellectual curiosity in the service of tradition that has had a lasting role in Eurasian intellectual history
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520343498
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780520343498
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520974821
