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Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
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Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500

Edited BySonja Brentjes, Jürgen Renn
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 5 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315585147
Pages 256 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315585147
SubjectsHumanities
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Brentjes, S. (Ed.), Renn, J. (Ed.). (2016). Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315585147

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of question, ranging from how history-writing drew on cross-culturally constructed stories and shared sets of skills and values, to how an ancient warlord was transformed into the iconic hero of a newly created monotheistic religion. Between these two poles, the emergence of a new, knowledge-related, but market-based profession in Baghdad is discussed, alongside the long-distance transfer of texts, doctrines and values within a religious minority community from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the mountains of the southern Arabian Peninsula. The authors also investigate the outsourcing of military units and skills across religious and political boundaries, the construction of cross-cultural knowledge of the balance through networks of scholars, patrons, merchants and craftsmen, as well as differences in linguistic and pharmaceutical practices in mixed cultural environments for shared corpora of texts, drugs and plants.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
ByJürgen Renn, Sonja Brentjes
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chapter 1|24 pages
From One Universal Historiography to the Other: The Reorientation of Ancient Historiography in Byzantium and its Reception in Arabic—The Islamic Organization of Written Memory
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chapter 2|36 pages
Aspects of Craft in the Arabic Book Revolution
ByBeatrice Gruendler
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chapter 3|34 pages
Contexts and Content of Thābit ibn Qurra’s (died 288/901) Construction of Knowledge on the Balance
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chapter 4|30 pages
Monarchs and Minorities: “Infi del” Soldiers in Mediterranean
ByCourts
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chapter 5|10 pages
The Synonyma Literature in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
ByCharles Burnett
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chapter 6|26 pages
The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen (Sixth/Twelfth Century through Eighth/Fourteenth Century)
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chapter 7|38 pages
Iskandar the Prophet: Religious Themes in Islamic Versions of the Alexander Legend
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