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Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

De Lacy O'Leary

Religion & MysticismEnglish
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How did Greek philosophy and science pass to the Arabs, and from them to medieval Europe? De Lacy O'Leary traces the road: from the Hellenistic schools of…

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De Lacy O'Leary
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Religion & Mysticism
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English
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About this book

How did Greek philosophy and science pass to the Arabs, and from them to medieval Europe? De Lacy O'Leary traces the road: from the Hellenistic schools of Alexandria and the Syriac Christian translators of Edessa, Nisibis and Jundishapur to the great translation movement of Abbasid Baghdad; the philosophers al-Kindi, al-Farabi and Ibn Sina; the debates of the theologians and al-Ghazali's critique of philosophy; and the thinkers of al-Andalus, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd, whose works, translated into Latin, shaped European scholasticism.

Context and significance

O'Leary (1872–1957), a British orientalist who taught at Bristol, published the book in 1922. It is a compact account of one of the great chapters in the history of ideas, in which Baghdad and Cordoba carried learning across the centuries. Compare Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan and Aristotle's Categories.

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