ABSTRACT

First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of six of the Oriental series looking at Arabic History and Culture. It was written in 1922, and the following text traces the transmission of Hellenistic thought through the medium of Muslim philosophers and Jewish thinkers who lived in Muslim surroundings, to show how this thought, modified as it passed through a period of development in the Muslim community and itself modifying Islamic ideas, was brought to bear upon the culture of Mediaeval Latin Christendom.

chapter |33 pages

The Arab Period

chapter |18 pages

The Translators

chapter |12 pages

The Mu‘tazilites

chapter |46 pages

The Eastern Philosophers

chapter |27 pages

Sufism

chapter |18 pages

Orthodox Scholasticism

chapter |35 pages

Western Philosophy

chapter |14 pages

The Jewish Teansmittoes

chapter |1 pages

Concluding Paragraph

chapter |25 pages

Chronological Table