Tag: Arabic

Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus


Free Download Aileen R. Das, "Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus"
English | ISBN: 1108499481 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato’s Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129-c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplinary norms. It argues that Galen appealed to the entangled cosmological scheme of the dialogue, where different relations connect the body, soul, and cosmos, to expand the boundaries of medicine in his pursuit for epistemic authority – the right to define and explain natural reality. Aileen Das situates Galen’s work on disciplinary boundaries in the context of medicine’s ancient rivalry with philosophy, whose professionals were long seen as superior knowers of the cosmos vis-à-vis doctors. Her case studies show how Galen and four of the most important Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers in the Arabic Middle Ages creatively interpreted key doctrines from the Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy as well as their own intellectual identities.

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Arabic English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Bilingual Visual Dictionaries)


Free Download Arabic English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Bilingual Visual Dictionaries) by DK
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 0593850424 | 360 pages | True EPUB | 88.74 MB
With over 6,750 fully illustrated words and phrases in Arabic and English, along with a free bilingual audio app, DK’s Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential companion to learning Arabic.

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The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period


Free Download Sidney H. Griffith, "The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period "
English | ISBN: 086078889X | 2002 | 345 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith’s previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian ‘ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

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Optics, Astronomy and Logic Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy


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English | ISBN: 0860784355 | | 337 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 34 MB
Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam. The opening paper presents the historiography of this process, and the focus is then placed on Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most original and influential figures of the 11th century, and in particular in his contribution to the science of optics, both mathematical and experimental, and the psychology of vision. Professor Sabra then continues the analysis of how Greek thought was developed in the Islamic world with two studies of work based on Euclid’s geometry and two on critiques of Ptolemaic astronomy. The final articles turn specifically to questions in the history of logic – Aristotelian syllogism, and Avicenna’s views on the subject – matter of logic.

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The Worlding of Arabic Literature Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability


Free Download Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability"
English | ISBN: 1531503225 | 2023 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer "embargoed" from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?

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The Rise of the Arabic Book


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English | October 13, 2020 | ISBN: 0674987810 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 22.6 MB
The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.

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