Reason and revelation in Byzantine Antioch the Christian translation program of Abdallah ibn-al-Fadl
What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapted and reinvigorated this ancient philosophical heritage? Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch tackles these questions by examining the work of t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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Colección: | Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapted and reinvigorated this ancient philosophical heritage? Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch tackles these questions by examining the work of the eleventh-century Christian theologian Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, who undertook an ambitious program of translating Greek texts, ancient and contemporary, into Arabic. Poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his home city of Antioch and the Arabic-speaking cultural universe of Syria-Palesti |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 357 pages) : maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 0520974824 9780520974821 |