8vo. total of 420 pages, frontispiece portrait, cloth, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front & lower cover, edited with a foreword by Dunning S. Wilson, Preface by Speros Vryonis Jr, index, copy in very good condition, Variorum Reprints, London, 1976.

Synopsis

A collection of studies by Professor von Grunebaum comprising the following:
1. Islam and Hellenism.–2. Islam.–3. The problem.–4. The structure of the Muslim town.–5. The sacred character of Islamic cities.–6. The convergence of cultural traditions in the Mediterranean area.–7. The sources of Islamic civilization.–8. The problem of cultural influence.–9. Le concept de classicisme culturel.–10. Islam.–11. Islam.–12. Parallelism, convergence, and influence in the relations of Arab and Byzantine philosophy, literature, and piety.–13. Byzantine iconoclasm and the influence of the Islamic environment.–14. Observations on the Muslim concept of evil.–15. Literature in the context of Islamic civilization.–16. Arabic poetics.–17. On the origin and early development of Arabic muzdawij poetry.–18. Greek form elements in the Arabian Nights.–19. Eine poetische Polemik zwischen Byzanz und Bagdad im 10. Jahrhundert.–20. Observations on city panegyrics in Arabic prose.