The role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the west : implications for contemporary trans-cultural relations /

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Imprint:Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
©2012
Description:1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13452535
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Other authors / contributors:Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F., editor.
ISBN:9780230393219
0230393217
1283737116
9781283737111
9780230393202
0230393209
9781349352272
1349352276
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed April 12, 2018).
Summary:This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab- Islamic world's overall impact on the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Through this survey of cultural exchange and borrowing, the book challenges received Eurocentric narratives of the rise of the West. It also offers a timely and important discussion of the implications of this shared history for contemporary trans-cultural relations.
Other form:Print version: Role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780230393202
Standard no.:10.1057/9780230393219

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