ISBN:
9780230393202
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (251 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West : Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations
DDC:
303.48217492701821
Keywords:
Islamic civilization
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Civilization, Western -- Islamic influences
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Civilization, Western -- Arab influences
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction: A Thousand Years of Amnesia; 2 The Arabs and the Italian Renaissance; 3 Re-orienting the Reformation? Prolegomena to a History of the Reformation's Connection with the Islamic World; 4 The Possible Contribution of Islamic Legal Institutions to the Emergence of a Rule of Law and the Modern State in Europe; 5 Islamic Commerce and Finance in the Rise of the West; 6 Suppressed or Falsified History? The Untold Story of Arab-Islamic Rationalist Philosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
7 A Forgotten Debt: Humanism and Education, from the Orient to the West8 The Arabic-Latin Intercultural Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe: Historical Context and Case Studies; 9 Way Forward: Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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