Romance and reason : Islamic transformations of the classical past
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Romance and reason : Islamic transformations of the classical past
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University , Princeton University Press [distributor], c2018
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Feb. 14, 2018-May 13, 2018
"This exhibition has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in partnership with the National Library of Israel"--Colophon
Bibliography: p. 140-147
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Within a century of the Arab Muslim conquest of vast territories in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam became the inheritor of the intellectual legacy of classical antiquity. In an epochal cultural transformation between the eighth and tenth centuries CE, most of what survived in classical Greek literature and thought was translated from Greek into Arabic. This translation movement, sponsored by the ruling Abbasid dynasty, swiftly blossomed into the creative expansion and reimagining of classical ideas that were now integral parts of the Islamic tradition.
Romance and Reason, a lavishly illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, explores the breadth and depth of Islamic engagement with ancient Greek thought. Drawing on manuscripts and artifacts from the collections of the National Library of Israel and prominent American institutions, the catalogue's essays focus on the portrayal of Alexander the Great as ideal ruler, mystic, lover, and philosopher in Persian poetry and art, and how Islamic medicine, philosophy, and science contended with and developed the classical tradition.
Contributors include Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Leigh Chipman, Steven Harvey, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Rachel Milstein, Julia Rubanovich, Samuel Thrope, and Raquel Ukeles.
Exhibition Dates: February 14-May 13, 2018
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