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How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs
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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.
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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
Bar...
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