TY - BOOK ID - 77888172 TI - Greek thought, Arabic culture : the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early ʻAbbasid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) PY - 1998 SN - 1282816292 1283707721 9786612816291 1134926359 0203017439 9781134926350 0415061326 0415061334 9780415061322 9780415061339 9780203017432 9781134926305 9781134926343 1134926340 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Civilization, Arab KW - History. KW - Greek language KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Middle East KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - History & Archaeology KW - Classical languages KW - Indo-European languages KW - Classical philology KW - Greek philology KW - Arab civilization KW - Civilization, Semitic KW - Islamic civilization KW - Interpretation and translation KW - Interpreting and translating KW - Language and languages KW - Literature KW - Translation and interpretation KW - Translators KW - Greek influences. KW - Translating into Arabic KW - Greek influences KW - History KW - Translating KW - Islamic Empire KW - Intellectual life. KW - Translating into Arabic&delete& KW - Abbasids KW - Islamic philosophy KW - Civilisation arabe KW - Grec (Langue) KW - Traduction et interprétation KW - ʻAbbāssides KW - Philosophie islamique KW - Influence grecque KW - Traduction en arabe KW - Histoire KW - Empire islamique KW - Intellectual life KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Civilization, Arab. KW - Civilization, Arab - Greek influences. KW - Greek language. KW - Translating and interpreting. KW - History of philosophy KW - Islam KW - Classical Greek language KW - History of civilization KW - anno 500-1199 KW - Greek language - Translating into Arabic - History. KW - Translating and interpreting - Islamic Empire. KW - Islamic Empire - Intellectual life. KW - Islamic Empire - History - 750-1258. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888172 AB - From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic.Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids', during the first two ER -