Book ID: CBB719775288

Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (2016)

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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.

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Review 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). unapi

Includes Chapters

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Sonja Brentjes; Jürgen Renn (2016) Postface. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 205-214). unapi

Chapter Jürgen Renn; Sonja Brentjes (2016) Introduction. In: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (pp. 1-6). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis
Violet Moller
Goffman, Laura F.
Seubert, Philippe
Michael Greenhalgh
Tucker, Judith E.
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Transmission of ideas
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Medicine
Astronomy
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Early modern
Renaissance
20th century, early
Places
Byzantium
Mediterranean region
Arabian peninsula
China
Middle and Near East
Baghdad (Iraq)
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