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Connected Stories - Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in Premodern Mediterranean Islam (Hardcover)
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Connected Stories - Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in Premodern Mediterranean Islam (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East
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Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or
plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject
of universal debate. They are not mere labels imposed by modern
historiography on ancient texts, nor are they the result of a later
interpretation of ways of transmitting and teaching, but are
concepts defined and discussed internally, within all cultures,
since time immemorial, which have yielded very diverse results. In
the case of culture, or better Arab-Islamic cultures, we could
analyze and discuss endlessly numerous terms that refer to concepts
related to the multiple ways of perceiving the Other, receiving his
knowledge and producing new knowledge. The purpose of this book
evolves around these concepts, and it aims to become part of a very
long tradition of studies on this subject that is essential to the
understanding of the processes of reception and creation. The
authors analyze them in depth through the use of examples that are
based on the well-known idea that societies in different regions
did not remain isolated and indifferent to the literary, religious
or scientific creations that were developed in other territories
and moreover that the flow of ideas did not always occur in only
one direction. Contacts, both voluntary and involuntary, are never
incidental or marginal, but are rather the true engine of the
evolution of knowledge and creation. It can also be stated that it
has been the awareness of the existence of multidimensional
cultural relations which has allowed modern historiography on Arab
cultures to evolve and be enriched in recent decades.
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