From Hellenism to Islam

From Hellenism to Islam
Author: Hannah Cotton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2009-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521875811

This book considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad.

Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia

Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia
Author: Dr Bruno De Nicola
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472448634

This volume offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Essays examine the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, consider encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life, and focus on the process of Islamisation as understood from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence.

A History of Islamic Philosophy

A History of Islamic Philosophy
Author: Majid Fakhry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231132206

The first comprehensive survey of Islamic philosophy from the seventh century to the present, this classic discusses Islamic thought and its effect on the cultural aspects of Muslim life. Fakhry shows how Islamic philosophy has followed from the earliest times a distinctive line of development, which gives it the unity and continuity that are the marks of the great intellectual movements of history.

Studies on Hellenism, Christianity and the Umayyads

Studies on Hellenism, Christianity and the Umayyads
Author: Garth Fowden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Art, Umayyad
ISBN:

The present volume offers a partial presentation of research that has been prosecuted, in one form or another, over the past decade and more. Some early, misguided ideas about the relationship between Hellenism and the Umayyads as manifest in the paintings of Qusayr Arma appeared in chapter 6 of Garth Fowden, "Empire to commonwealth : Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity (1993) ; while in chapter 6 of "The Barbarian Plain : Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran" (1999), Elisabeth Key Fowden looked at the relationship between Christianity and Islam in Umayyad al Rusafa. A three-year grant from the "Aristeia" programme of the Greek Ministry of Development, General Secretariat for Research and Technology, within the European Union's 3rd Community Support Framework, has encouraged us to concentrate on specific aspects of these cultural interactions. A more rounded interpretation of the material, with due emphasis on the wider Islamic environment, will be published elsewhere.

How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs

How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs
Author: Delacy O'Leary
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317847482

First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.

Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches

Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches
Author: Vasilios Makrides
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0814795684

Highlights the patterns of development, continuity, and change that have characterized the Greece's long and unique religious history. This book demonstrates the diversity and plurality that has characterized Greece's religious landscape across history.

Socrates and the Jews

Socrates and the Jews
Author: Miriam Leonard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226472477

Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.