Category: History - Other
The subject proposed in the following pages is the history of the cultural transmission by which Greek philosophy and science were passed from Hellenistic surroundings to the Syriac speaking community, thence to the Arabic speaking world of Islam, and so finally to the Latin S...
The subject proposed in the following pages is the history of the cultural transmission by which Greek philosophy and science were passed from Hellenistic surroundings to the Sy...
7. CHAPTER VIThe Aristotelian philosophy was first made known to the Muslim world through the medium of Syriac translations and commentaries, and the particular commentaries used amongst the...
10. CHAPTER IXMuslim rule in North Africa west of the Nile valley was commenced under conditions very different from those prevailing in Egypt and Syria. The Arabs found this land occupied by...
12. CHAPTER XIWe have now followed the way in which Hellenistic philosophy was passed from the Greeks to the Syrians, from the Syrians to the Arabic-speaking Muslims, and was by the Muslims c...
2. CHAPTER IIIslam in its earlier form was entirely an Arab religion. The temporal side of the Prophet Muhammad’s mission shows him engaged in an effort to unite the tribes of the Hijaz in a...
8. CHAPTER VIISufism or Islamic mysticism, which becomes prominent in the course of the 3rd cent. A.H., was partly a product of Hellenistic influences, and exercised a considerable influence...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe formation of an orthodox scholasticism within the Muslim church appears as a development spread over the 4th-5th centuries of the Hijra (10-11 cent. A.D.), and is in three s...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe rule of the `Umayyads had been a period of tyrannical oppression on the part of the Arab rulers upon their non-Arab subjects and especially upon the _mawali_ or converts dra...
11. CHAPTER XWe have already seen that the Jews took a prominent part in bringing a knowledge of philosophical research from Asia to Spain, and Ibn Jabirul (Avencebrol) takes his place in th...
6. CHAPTER VWhen the Aristotelian philosophy was first made known to the Muslim world it was received almost as a revelation supplementing the Qur´an. At that time it was very imperfectly u...
4. CHAPTER IVOne of the first and most significant indications of the new orientation of Muslim thought was the extensive production of Arabic translations of works dealing with philosophica...
5. book 30 of the Metaphysics, all from the existing Syriac versions. HeThe Jacobite translators come on the scene after the Nestorians. Amongst the Jacobites translating from Syriac to Arabic we find _Yahya b. Adi_ of Takrit (d. 364), a pupil of Hu...