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Arab Civilization: Challenges and Responses
This book discusses Arab history, law, philosophy, politics, and literature, analyzing the challenges and responses aroused by the interaction between Western culture and the ancient and modern Arab cultures. It offers a wealth of information on the forces that have shaped Arab civilization and on several of the major figures who have contributed to its development. Some of the outstanding contributions include a comprehensive study of Dr. Zurayk as the advocate of rationalism in modern Arab thought by Hani A. Faris; a sober but challenging look at the use of Islamic history in our time by Muhsin Mahdi; an analysis of the expression of historicity in the Koran by Jacques Berque; an explanation of the concept of equity in Islamic law by Majid Khadduri; and the revelation of a Mamluk Magna Carta by Aziz Sourial Atiya.
The House of Wisdom
For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. T here, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle. I n the royal library of Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections i...
Islamic Dynasties of the Arab East
This volume contains indepth, comprehensive studies on five such islamic dynasties of great historical importance, namely the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, the Rasulids and the Zaydis. It is hoped that this illuminating and scholarly work will not only cater to the needs of students and scholars of Arab-Islamic history and culture, but also serve as an authentic reference book on the subject.
Arab Travellers and Western Civilization
Lebanese novelist and scholar of classical Arabic literature Yared reminds westerners that her people have travelled among them and written accounts as well as vice versa. Though acknowledging classical travel literature, she focuses on Arab travellers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She analyzes writers who represent a train of thought shared by intelligencia of their time or who had an important impact on contemporaries or future generations. Her topics include nationalism and the state, democracy, principles of the French revolution, and western scientific thought. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Genius of Arab Civilization
This edition is filled with nearly 100 illustrations. It contains essays by such top scholars as Oleg Grabar, Abdelhammid I. Sabra, and Mounah A. Khouri on the Arab role and influence in Islamic Culture, literature, philosophy, history, architecture and art, science, technology,trade, and commerce.
