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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th C.) Hardcover - 1998

by Dimitri Gutas


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From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic.
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Greco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon.
Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.

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Certain material conditions that prepared a background against which a translation movement could take place and flourish were established by two momentous historical events, the early Arab conquests through the Umayyad period and the 'Abbasid revolution that culminated in 134/750.

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  • Title Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th C.)
  • Author Dimitri Gutas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 1998-06-25
  • ISBN 9780415061322 / 0415061326
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 6.12 x 0.93 in (20.73 x 15.54 x 2.36 cm)
  • Reading level 1660
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Islamic Empire - History - 750-1258, Civilization, Arab - Greek influences
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97042761
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.097

About the author

Dimitri Gutas is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation (1975), Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (1988), and, with Gerhard Endress, A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (1992-).
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