
Islamic Crosspollinations
Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
Gibb Memorial Trust (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2007
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-906094-55-6 (ISBN)
Description
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated Islamic past, to which they strive to return by purging foreign or unauthentic elements from their religion. Next to these attempts, another more traditional view sees the influence between the Western and the Islamic world in linear and teleological terms. Knowledge was transmitted, so to speak, from Alexandria to Baghdad, and hence to Toledo and Paris. The present volume challenges both these concepts regarding the development of Islamic cultures. To do justice to the complexity of structures within which the Muslim Middle Ages unfolded, it approaches the questions of interaction and influence through a novel conceptual framework, that of crosspollination. Instead of telling the story of the transmission of Western works from Greece via Islam into the Latin world, a number of case studies highlight the plurality of encounters between Islam and other adjacent cultures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
721 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-906094-55-6 (9780906094556)
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Islamic Crosspollinations
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James E. Montgomery is The Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Fellow of Trinity Hall, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.
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The Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of ArabUniversity of Cambridge
CUNY Graduate Center
Wellcome Trust Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of WarwickUniversity of Warwick.