How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs

Delacy O'LEARY

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317847489
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Antropologia

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.

INDEX

(The article al- etc. and Ibn are not reckoned in classification.)

Aaron of Alexandria, 35, 92

‘Abbasid revolution, 146 sqq.

‘Abd al-Malik, khalif, 136

‘Abd al-Masih, 159, 177

Abraham of Kashkar (two of this name), 66

Adiabene, 90

Aedisius, 28

Aetius, 35

Agapetus, Pope, 83–4

Agatharchides, 98

Ahudemmeh of Tagrit, 90

al-Akhtal, poet, 136

Aleppo, 178

Alexander the Great, 6, 110, 121

Alexandria, in Egypt, 19; schools of —, 20; Hellenism of —, 19; curriculum of the schools, 167

Alexandria “Under the Caucasus”, 110, 124 sqq.

‘Ali ar-Rida, 162 Almajest, 158

Ammonius Saccas, 23, 29, 176

Anastasius, 52, 53

Andalus, 170

Andrew of Crete, 138

Antiochus IV, 114

Appollonius, 30

Aqaq (Acacius), 59

Arabic grammarians, 144

Arabs of Roman (Syrian) frontier, 134 sqq.

Aramaic, 7, 182

Archimedes, 30

Ardashir, 12

Aristarchus, 30

Aristotle, 21, 70, 151, 159, 176 sqq., 178

Armenia, 118

Armenian Church, 77

Arrian‘s Indica, 101

Arsacids, 111

Aryabhata, 104, 107

Asoka, 121 sqq.; edicts of, 122

Assassins, 180

Astrology, 4

Aurelian, 16

Aurelius, 25

Axumites, 24, 102

Babowai, 58

Bactria (Balkh), 2, 3, 110, 112, 113, 126 sqq.; holy land of Buddhism, 115 127

Baghdad, 3, 72, 146, 161, 162; foundation of —, 148

Bait Lapat, 58

Balkh, see Bactria

Bamiyan, 130

Bar Daisan, 126

Barmakids, 119, 150

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• I. INTRODUCTION
• II. HELLENISM IN ASIA
• III. THE LEGACY OF GREECE
• IV. CHRISTIANITY AS A HELLENIZING FORCE
• V. THE NESTORIANS
• VI. THE MONOPHYSITES
• VII. INDIAN INFLUENCE, I: THE SEA ROUTE
• VIII. INDIAN INFLUENCE, II: THE LAND ROUTE
• IX. BUDDHISM AS A POSSIBLE MEDIUM
• X. THE KHALIFATE OF DAMASCUS
• XI. THE KHALIFATE OF BAGHDAD
• XII. TRANSLATION INTO ARABIC
• XIII. THE ARAB PHILOSOPHERS
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX