How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs
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Abbasid Khalifate
Ali Ibn Yahya
ancient medicine transmission
Arabic
Arabic Language
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Barmakid Family
Beth Garmai
Byzantium
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Christian Church
cross-cultural scientific exchange
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Greek knowledge diffusion to Islam
Holy Men
hunayn
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq
ibn
Ibn Yahya
ishaq
Islamic Golden Age
john
John Philoponus
Kushan Kings
Marwan II
mazdean
Mazdean Religion
medieval astronomy
Monophysite Church
Nestorian Church
Nestorian scholarship
North West India
philoponus
qurra
scientific translation movement
Spherical Trigonometry
syriac
Syriac Translation
Syriac Version
thabit
Thabit Ibn Qurra
Umayyad Dynasty
version
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138972056
- Weight: 204g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
