Essay Review ID: CBB000640089

The “Fluctuating Fortunes of Scholarship”: A Very Late Review Occasioned by a Fallen Book (2006)

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Description Review of: Jackson, David E. P., Scholarship in Abbasid Baghdad... (1987-1988)


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Article Jackson, David E. P. (1987-1988) Scholarship in Abbasid Baghdad with Special Reference to Greek Mechanics in Arabic. Quaderni di Studi Arabi (p. 369). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rashed, Roshdi
De Young, Gregg
Violet Moller
Papadopoulo, Athanase
Wright, Owen
Tibi, Selma
Journals
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Oxford University Press
I. B. Tauris
Brill
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Anchor
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Mathematics
Translations
Medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Geometry
People
Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan
Euclid
al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq
Galen
Menelaus of Alexandria
al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā
Time Periods
9th century
10th century
Medieval
11th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Baghdad (Iraq)
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Isfahan (Iran)
Middle and Near East
Cairo (Egypt)
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
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