The Classical Heritage in Islam

Franz Rosenthal, Emile Marmorstein, Jenny Marmorstein, Emile Marmorstein, Jenny Marmorstein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9781138141797
• eBook ISBN: 9781134901289
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by drawing together a great range of literary renderings, paraphrases, commentaries and imitations, as well as independent Islamic elaborations. Professor Rosenthal's collection includes the work of early authors, authors of the Golden Age and later writers who imitated their works. The Classical Heritage in Islam reveals that the Muslim adoption of and dependence on classical texts was not blind imitation or a casual compounding of traditions, but rather an original synthesis and therefore a unique achievement.

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Entries for persons, places and countries and topics at times include derived forms without express indication; for example, Pythagoras, Pythagorean (noun and adjective), or tyrant, tyrannical, tyranny, tyrannis, etc. Topical entries are highly selective, and all relevant references to a particular subject are combined under one characteristic word. Proper names transliterated without vowels have not been included. The Arabic article al- has been ignored in the alphabetical order. As a further aid to the reader, biographical dates have been added in brackets, as well as short references to the literature, usually C. Brockel-mann’s Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur and its Supplementbände (Weimar–Leiden, 1898–1949), abbreviated as Br. S., G. Graf’s Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur (Vatican City, 1944–53), abbreviated as Graf, F. Sezgin’s Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (Leiden 1967—), abbreviated as Sezgin, and the Encylopaedia of Islam, abbreviated as EI and EI².

ʿAbbās, I. R., 58

ʿAbbāsids, 3–6, 27, 83, 194

ʿAbd-al-Bāqī, A., 256

ʿAbd-al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā (d.750), 48 (Br. S. I 105)

ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (1162–1231), 156 (Br. S. I 880–1)

ʿAbd-al-Majīd, H., 261

ʿAbd-al-Malik (reg.685–705...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• A Note on the English Translation
• Transliteration Scheme
• Introduction
• I. Translation Technique and Textual Criticism
• II. Biography and Cultural History
• III. The classification of the sciences and methods of research and teaching
• IV. Philosophy
• V. Natural Science
• VI. Medicine
• VII. Geometry, Arithmetic and Optics
• VIII. Geography and Astronomy
• IX. Musicology
• X. Mechanics
• XI. The Occult Sciences
• XII. Literature and Art
• Notes
• Index