O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture

O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 576
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ISBN-10 : 9789047422051
ISBN-13 : 9047422058
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Book Synopsis O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture by : Arnoud Vrolijk

Download or read book O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture written by Arnoud Vrolijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O ye Gentlemen explores two vital strands in Arabic culture: the Greek tradition in science and philosophy and the literary tradition. They are permanent and, though drawing on Islam as a dominant religion, they are by no means dependent on it. That the strands freely interweave within the broader scope of Schrifttum is shown by more than thirty essays on subjects as varied as the social organisation of bees, spontaneous generation in the Shiʿite tradition, astronomy in the Arabian nights, the benefits of sex, precious stones in a literary text, the virtue of women in Judaeo-Arabic stories, animals in Middle Eastern music and the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to the medieval West.


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