Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea: Studies on the Sources, Contents and Influences of Islamic Civilization and Arabic Philosophy and Science: Dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Arnzen, R. and J. Thielmann eds. [Gerhard Endress Festschrift]

ISBN 10: 9042914890 / ISBN 13: 9789042914896

Published by Peeters, 2004

xxxi, 686pp. Sewn binding in green cloth. FINE in NEAR FINE jacket with just a touch of shelfwear. Seller Inventory # 507551

Synopsis:

"The remarkable extension in depth and width of Muslim intellectual life can be fathomed and measured only against the background of what went on immediately before, and simultaneously elsewhere, or it will remain, in any real sense, unexplored." This statement by the late Franz Rosenthal is, in a sense, the red thread of the present volume which unites 35 articles by renowned scholars of Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and various allied fields of research in honour of a scholar congenial to Franz Rosenthal and exemplary in his scientific carefulness and integrity: Dr Gerhard Endress, Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Central topics of the contributions include Arabic philosophy and its Greek sources and Latin reception, the history and historiography of Arabic-Islamic science, and Islamic concepts of language, knowledge, science and pedagogy. Other articles deal with qur'anic studies, Arabic lexicography and linguistics, the history of Middle Eastern civilizations, the medieval translation movements from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin as well as with political and eschatological theories of medieval Islam. Rooted in different scientific traditions and methodological approaches the studies collected in this Festschrift form a vivid and stimulating synopsis of more than 1000 years of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean intellectual, social and cultural history.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the ...
Publisher: Peeters
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Condition: FINE
Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE