The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations
This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance.
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The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations
This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance.
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The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan
The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan

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This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230393202
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 08/21/2012
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 241
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

MOHAMMED ABATTOUY Senior Scholar at the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, Manchester, UK and Head of the Philosophy Department, Mohammed Vth University, Rabat, Morocco SAMAR ATTAR Independent Scholar, who has taught English, Arabic and comparative literature in the USA, Canada, Algeria, Germany, Australia and Turkey. She has published extensively in both English and Arabic in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, migration and gender studies FREDERIQUE GUERIN Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland JACK GOODY Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge University, UK JOHN M. HOBSON Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK MOHAMMED-MAHMOUD OULD MOHAMEDOU Visiting Professor in the International History and Politics and Development departments of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland LISA WATANABE Research Fellow of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Contributors vii

1 Introduction: A Thousand Years of Amnesia Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan 1

2 The Arabs and the Italian Renaissance Jack Goody 25

3 Re-orienting the Reformation? Prolegomena to a History of the Reformation's Connection with the Islamic World Frédérique Guerin 38

4 The Possible Contribution of Islamic Legal Institutions to the Emergence of a Rule of Law and the Modern State in Europe Lisa Watanabe 61

5 Islamic Commerce and Finance in the Rise of the West John M. Hobson 84

6 Suppressed or Falsified History? The Untold Story of Arab-Islamic Rationalist Philosophy Samar Attar 116

7 A Forgotten Debt: Humanism and Education, from the Orient to the West Mohammad-Mahmoud Quid Mohamedou 144

8 The Arabic-Latin Intercultural Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe: Historical Context and Case Studies Mohammed Abattouy 167

9 Way Forward: Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan 220

Index 233

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