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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture
The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early
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From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the Eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East were translated into Arabic.Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Graeco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon.
Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.
Subject categories
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar > Translating and interpreting
- Academic > History > History of Asia > Arab countries
- Academic > History > History of Asia > Middle East. Southwestern Asia. Ancient Orient. Arab East. Near East
- Academic > History > Medieval history
- Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
- History > Ancient > Greece
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Translating & Interpreting
- History > Middle East
ISBNs
9781134926350
9781134926343
9780415061322
9780203017432
0203017439
