Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.)

Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.

Author: Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/25/1998
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.16h x 6.12w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780415061322

About the Author
Dimitri Gutas is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation (1975), Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (1988), and, with Gerhard Endress, A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (1992-).