Author: Dalia BenzadaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 144672073X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Animaux Et Lettres Arabes
Author: Dalia BenzadaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 144672073X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Author: Yearbook of International Organizations
Author: Publisher: International Publications Service
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus
Author: Aileen R. DasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108602991
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplinary norms. It argues that Galen appealed to the entangled cosmological scheme of the dialogue, where different relations connect the body, soul, and cosmos, to expand the boundaries of medicine in his pursuit for epistemic authority – the right to define and explain natural reality. Aileen Das situates Galen's work on disciplinary boundaries in the context of medicine's ancient rivalry with philosophy, whose professionals were long seen as superior knowers of the cosmos vis-à-vis doctors. Her case studies show how Galen and four of the most important Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers in the Arabic Middle Ages creatively interpreted key doctrines from the Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy as well as their own intellectual identities.
Le Règne Animal Distribué D'après Son Organisation
Author: Georges baron CuvierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Revue des sciences et des lettres
Author: Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages
Author: Houari TouatiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226808777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.
Dromadaires et chameaux, animaux laitiers
Author: Pascal BonnetPublisher: Editions Quae
ISBN: 2876143070
Category : Bactrian camel
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750
Author: Jelle BruningPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004366369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750, Jelle Bruning maps al-Fusṭāṭ’s development from a garrison town founded by Muslim conquerors near modern Cairo (Egypt) in c. 640 C.E. into a bustling provincial capital a century later. Synthesising contemporary papyri, archaeology and narrative sources, this book argues that al-Fusṭāṭ’s position in Egypt changed with the different policies of the Rightly-Guided and Umayyad caliphs and their provincial representatives. Because these policies affected the town’s centrality in the administration as well as in commercial and legal networks throughout Egypt, from Alexandria in the north to Aswan in the south, The Rise of a Capital offers valuable new insights into Egypt’s society during the first century of Muslim rule.
Author: Astor Library