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Publish Date
2001
Publisher
K. Paul,
Distributed by Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
196
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How Greek science passed to the Arabs
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. INTRODUCION I
II. HELLENISM IN ASIA 6
I. Hellenization of Syria 6
2. The Frontier Provinces Io
3. Foundation of Jundi-Shapur I4
4. Diocletian and Constantine 15
III. THE LEGACY OF GREECE 19
I. Alexandrian Science 19
2. Philosophy 21
3. Greek Mathematicians 29
4. Greek Medicine 34
IV. CHRISTIANITY AS A HELLENIZING FORCE 36
I. Hellenistic Atmosphere of Christianity 36
2. Expansion of Christianity 40
3. Ecclesiastical Organization 44
V. THE NETORIANs 47
I. First School of Nisibis 47
2. School of Edessa 50
3. Nestorian Schism 52
4. Dark Period of the Nestorian Church 62
5. The Nestorian Reformation 64
VI. THE MONOPHYsrrITES 73
i. Beginning of Monophysitism 73
2. The Monophysite Schism 75
3. Persecution of the Monophysites 80
4. Organization of the Monophysite Church 85
5. Persian Monophysites 90
VII. INDIAN INFLUENCE, I: THE SEA ROUTE 96
1. The Sea Route to India 96
2. Alexandrian Science in India 104
VIII. INDIAN INFLUENCE, II: THE LAND ROUTE I IO
I. Bactria I IO
2. The Road Through Marw I 17
IX. BUDDHISM AS A POSSIBLE MEDIUM I20
I. Rise of Buddhism I20
2. Did Buddhism Spread West? 122
3. Buddhist Bactria 126
4. Ibrahim ibn Adham 130
X. THE KHALIFATE OF DAMASCUS 131
I. Arab Conquest of Syria 131
2. The Family of Sergius I38
3. The Camp Cities 142
XI. THE KHALIFATE OF BAGHDAD 146
I. The 'Abbasid Revolution 146
2. The Foundation of Baghdad 148
XII. TRANSLATION INTO ARABIC 155
I. The First Translators I55
2. Hunayn ibn Ishaq I64
3. Other Translators 170
4. Thabit ibn Qurra 171
XIII. THE ARAB PHILOSOPHERS I76
NOTES 182
BIBLIOGRAPHY 189
INDEX 193.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-192) and index.
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