Greek into Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Greek into Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
D'Ancona, Cristina

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061814
Doc. NO	:	ALei2211
Main Entry	:	D'Ancona, Cristina
Title & Author	:	Greek into Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ D'Ancona, Cristina
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(10,680 words)
Abstract	:	The transmission of Greek learning to subsequent ages and to different linguistic areas, including its transmission into Arabic culture, was a process of momentous importance in the history of ideas. As exemplified by Boethius (d. 525 C.E.), translations of Greek philosophic and scientific works into Latin began at the end of antiquity, as a means of countering the loss of the Graeco-Latin bilingualism of the Roman Empire. In the sixth century there also appeared translations from Greek into Syriac. Then, by the second/eighth century, the Graeco-Arabic
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2211.pdf