Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th 5th-10th c.) (Arabic Thought & Culture) Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: Routledge

The wars of the Arabs and the Khazars, .. Classical Arabic is also a significant cultural element in Egyptian culture, as Egyptian novelists and poets were among the first to experiment with modern styles of Arabic literature, and the forms they developed have been widely imitated. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.): The Graeco-Arabic Century) (Arabic Thought & Culture). The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society (2nd - 4th/8th - 10th centuries). 0.1 million) have maintained their native language to a high degree while, in southern Russia and Ukraine, the Greeks have largely assimilated into their linguistic and cultural environment. With the Abbasid caliphs the wars of conquest ceased, the revived influence of the old Persian culture created a mellower climate, and eventually gave rise to the splendours of Baghdad under Harun al Rashid. The Greek name is derived from Late Egyptian Hikuptah “Memphis”, a corruption of the earlier Egyptian name Hat-ka-Ptah (ḥwt-k3-ptḥ), meaning “home of the ka (soul) of Ptah”, the name of a temple to the god Ptah at Memphis. [41] The first 3 centuries of this period were an era of translation of foreign sources (Greek, Syriac, Hindi, Persian) into Arabic.[42] The next 4 centuries were an era of original research to add to and enrich the translated material. Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe. As it was, on the line of the Caucasus the Arabs met the forces of an organized military power which effectively prevented them from extending their conquests in this direction. More than half a million Greeks ..