Islam and Medieval Hellenism: Social and Cultural Perspectives.

Islam and Medieval Hellenism: Social and Cultural Perspectives.

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Islam and Medieval Hellenism: Social and Cultural Perspectives.

Islam and Medieval Hellenism: Social and Cultural Perspectives.

£50

ID #21319

Grunebaum, Gustave E. Von.

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.

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.

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