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.
...MoreReview Shahrzad Irannejad (2018) Review of "Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 832-833).
Chapter Anna A. Akasoy (2016) Iskandar the Prophet: Religious Themes in Islamic Versions of the Alexander Legend. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 167-204).
Chapter Hussein Fancy (2016) Monarchs and Minorities: ‘Infidel’ Soldiers in Mediterranean Courts. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 101-130).
Chapter Beatrice Gruendler (2016) Aspects of Craft in the Arabic Book Revolution. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 31-66).
Chapter Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (2016) 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. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 7-30).
Chapter Sonja Brentjes; Jürgen Renn (2016) Postface. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 205-214).
Chapter Jürgen Renn; Sonja Brentjes (2016) Introduction. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 1-6).
Chapter Charles Burnett (2016) The Synonyma literature in the 12th and 13th centuries. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 131-140).
Chapter Hassan Ansari; Sabina Schmidtke (2016) The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen (12th Century through 14th Century). In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 141-166).
Chapter Sonja Brentjes; Jürgen Renn (2016) Contexts and Content of Thābit ibn Qurra’s (died 288/901) Construction of Knowledge on the Balance. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 67-100).
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