Religion, Learning And Science in the

This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature deals with writings on learned subjects from the 'Abbasid period (8th to 13th centuries AD), the golden age of Arabic literature. These cover a wide area, from philosophy, theology and law, through grammar and lexicography, to mathematics, astronomy and medicine. There are separate chapters on six of the greatest scholars of the period, on the development of translations from Greek into Arabic, and on the Arabic literature of the Christians and Jews who lived under the rule of the 'Abbasid caliphate.

Editorial preface
1. Sunni theology Salvador Gó
mez Nogales
2. Shi'i theological literature I. K. A. Howard
3. Ibadi theological literature J. C. Wilkinson
4. Quranic exegesis John Burton
5. The prose literature of Sufism Caesar E. Farah
6. Philosophical literature Muhsin Mahdi
7. Arabic lexicography M. G. Carter
8. Arabic grammar M. G. Carter
9. Islamic legal literature P. W. Baker and I. D. Edge
10. Administrative literature C. E. Bosworth
11. Arabic biographical writing M. J. L. Young
12. History and historians Claude Cahen
13. Fatimid history and historians Abbas Hamdani
14. Mathematics and applied science Donald R. Hill
15. Astronomy David A. King
16. Astrology David Pingree
17. Geographical and navigational literature J. F. P. Hopkins
18. The literature of Arabic alchemy Donald R. Hill
19. Arabic medical literature Haskell D. Isaacs
20. Al-Kindi Fritz W. Zimmerman
21. Al-Razi Albert Z. Iskandar
22. Al-Farabi Alfred L. Ivry
23. Ibn Sina Salvador Gó
mez Nogales
24. Al-Biruni and the sciences of his time George Saliba
25. Al-Ghazali Adib Nayif Diyab
26. Christian Arabic literature in the 'Abbasid period Samir Khalil Samir
27. Judaeo-Arabic literature Paul B. Fenton
28. The translation of Greek materials into Arabic L. E. Goodman
29. Didactic verse Safa 'Khulusi
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Religion, Learning And Science in the 'abbasid Period

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