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Globalization of knowledge in the post-antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

Globalization of knowledge in the post-antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
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ISBN 1472456564 (hbk.)
9781472456564 (hbk.)
Title Globalization of knowledge in the post-antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 / edited by Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn
Publisher Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York : Routledge, 2016
Physical desc. xiii, 234 p., [7] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Note CBL illustrations: colour plate [6] (Per 157.370).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From one universal history to the other: the reorientation of ancient historiography in Byzantium and its reception in Arabic--the Islamic organization of written memory / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- Aspects of craft in the Arabic book revolution / Beatrice Gruendler -- Contexts and content of Thabit ibn Qurra's (died 288/901) construction of knowledge on the balance / Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn -- Monarchs and minorities: 'infidel' soldiers in Mediterranean courts / Hussein Fancy -- The Synonyma literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Charles Burnett -- The cultural transfer of Zaydi and non-Zaydi religious literature from northern Iran to Yemen (sixth/twelfth century through eighth/fourteenth century) / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- Iskandar the prophet: religious themes in Islamic versions of the Alexander legend / Anna A. Akasoy.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 157
Culture and globalization -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Mediterranean Region -- Intellectual life
Mediterranean Region -- History
Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life
Islamic Empire -- History
Added name(s) Brentjes, Sonja ed.
Renn, Jürgen 1956- ed.
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