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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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2003

ISBN

9781134901289

Edition

Topic

Histoire

Subtopic

Histoire antique

INDEX

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...

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