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The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West
Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations
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The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West
Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations
About this book
This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: A Thousand Years of Amnesia
- 2 The Arabs and the Italian Renaissance
- 3 Re-orienting the Reformation? Prolegomena to a History of the Reformation’s Connection with the Islamic World
- 4 The Possible Contribution of Islamic Legal Institutions to the Emergence of a Rule of Law and the Modern State in Europe
- 5 Islamic Commerce and Finance in the Rise of the West
- 6 Suppressed or Falsified History? The Untold Story of Arab-Islamic Rationalist Philosophy
- 7 A Forgotten Debt: Humanism and Education, from the Orient to the West
- 8 The Arabic-Latin Intercultural Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe: Historical Context and Case Studies
- 9 Way Forward: Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations
- Index