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Islamic Crosspollinations - Interactions in the Medieval Middle East (Hardcover, New)
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Islamic Crosspollinations - Interactions in the Medieval Middle East (Hardcover, New)
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
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Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in
the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the
traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms,
whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their
construction of a pure and unadulterated Islamic past, to which
they strive to return by purging foreign or unauthentic elements
from their religion. Next to these attempts, another more
traditional view sees the influence between the Western and the
Islamic world in linear and teleological terms. Knowledge was
transmitted, so to speak, from Alexandria to Baghdad, and hence to
Toledo and Paris. The present volume challenges both these concepts
regarding the development of Islamic cultures. To do justice to the
complexity of structures within which the Muslim Middle Ages
unfolded, it approaches the questions of interaction and influence
through a novel conceptual framework, that of crosspollination.
Instead of telling the story of the transmission of Western works
from Greece via Islam into the Latin world, a number of case
studies highlight the plurality of encounters between Islam and
other adjacent cultures.
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