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

List of contents

Introduction, Renn and Brentjes / 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, Niehoff-Panagiotidis / Aspects of craft in the Arabic book revolution, Gruendler / Contexts and content of Thābit ibn Qurra’s (died 288/901) construction of knowledge on the balance, Brentjes and Renn / Monarchs and minorities: ‘infidel’ soldiers in Mediterranean courts, Fancy / The Synonyma literature in the 12th and 13th centuries, Burnett / The cultural transfer of Zaydī and non-Zaydī religious literature from northern Iran to Yemen (12th century through 14th century), Ansari and Schmidtke / Iskandar the prophet: religious themes in Islamic versions of the Alexander legend, Akasoy / Postface, Brentjes and Renn / Index.

Summary

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

Additional text

‘The editors assume that after the disintegration of the Roman Empire the Mediterranean continued to be a highly integrated region. Despite a growing political, economic and cultural diversity people, artefacts, ideas and knowledge continued to move back and forth between the Mediterranean, the Arabian peninsula, the Indian subcontinent and central Asia… The focus of the contributions is on the circulation of scholarly knowledge and the forms of its transmission…Texts of this kind will expand our future knowledge of intercultural transfers and will increase the Mediterranean region's visibility as a zone of integration.’ H-Net Reviews; October 2016

Product details

• Authors: Sonja Renn Brentjes
• Assisted by: Sonja Brentjes (Editor), Brentjes Sonja (Editor), Jürgen Renn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367879662
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87966-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Islam, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, RELIGION / Islam / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, Historiography, Archaeology, Language: reference & general, Social and cultural history, Language: reference and general, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, History and Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE