Islamic crosspollinations : interactions in the medieval Middle East
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Islamic crosspollinations : interactions in the medieval Middle East
Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated Islamic past, to which they strive to return by purging foreign or unauthentic elements from their religion. Next to these attempts, another more traditional view sees the influence between the Western and the Islamic world in linear and teleological terms. Knowledge was transmitted, so to speak, from Alexandria to Baghdad, and hence to Toledo and Paris. The present volume challenges both these concepts regarding the development of Islamic cultures. To do justice to the complexity of structures within which the Muslim Middle Ages unfolded, it approaches the questions of interaction and influence through a novel conceptual framework, that of crosspollination. Instead of telling the story of the transmission of Western works from Greece via Islam into the Latin world, a number of case studies highlight the plurality of encounters between Islam and other adjacent cultures.
Table of Contents
- Preface (James Montgomery)
- Abbreviations
- The Lamp and the Wine Flask: Early Muslim Interest in Christian Monasticism (Elizabeth Key Fowden)
- Greek Myth and Arabic Poetry at Qusayr 'Amra (Garth Fowden)
- The Influence of the Arabic Tradition of Falconry and Hunting on Western Europe (Anna Akasoy)
- The Pre-Socratics in Arabic Philosophical Pseudo-Epigrapha (Ulrich Rudolph)
- Islamic Medicine Crosspollinated: a Multilingual and Multiconfessional Maze (Peter Pormann)
- Byzantine, Western European, Islamic and Central Asian Influence in the Field of Arms and Armour from the Seventh to Fourteenth Century AD (David Nicolle)
- Memories of Egypt in Medieval Venice (Deborah Howard)
- Latin Averroism (John Marenbon)
- Islamic Crosspollinations (James Montgomery)
- Contributors.
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