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Success and Suppression
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance
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Dag Nikolaus Hasse
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.
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A must-read for people working on the histories of philosophy, medicine, or science in Renaissance Italy. In this important book, Hasse challenges a reigning paradigm in Renaissance studies, documenting the continuing centrality of the Arabic tradition in Italy and the complex interactions of humanism and Arabism in scientific and philosophical teaching and debates.
-- Katharine Park, Harvard University
-- Katharine Park, Harvard University
Success and Suppression is rich not only in its coverage of topics, but also in the variety of sources consulted and implications pursued. No matter which approach one takes or what background one brings to this book, the very exercise of reading it will bring unmitigated pleasure, if for no other reason than the vast tour d’horizon Hasse offers to the reader.
-- George Saliba, Columbia University
-- George Saliba, Columbia University
The fruits of Hasse’s groundbreaking research are now available to a wide readership in [this] lucid and well-documented monograph that offers a nuanced, convincing, and utterly captivating narrative…This is an imminently important and enjoyable book… In a field where he has been a pioneer, Hasse does justice to the complex circumstances which account for the presence or absence of Arabic theories.
-- Anna A. Akasoy Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
-- Anna A. Akasoy Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures and Tables
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Preface
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Note on Terminology, Orthography, and Transliteration
xix - Part I. The Presence of Arabic Traditions
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1. Introduction: Editions and Curricula
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2. Bio-Bibliography: A Canon of Learned Men
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3. Philology: Translators’ Programs and Techniques
69 - Part II. Greeks versus Arabs
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4. Materia medica: Humanists on Laxatives
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5. Philosophy: Averroes’s Partisans and Enemies
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6. Astrology: Ptolemy against the Arabs
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7. Conclusion
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Appendix: The Availability of Arabic Authors in Latin Editions of the Renaissance
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Abbreviations
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Acknowledgments
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Index of Names
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General Index
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November 28, 2016
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9780674973664
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