The role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West implications for contemporary trans-cultural relations / edited by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan.

Other author Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionviii, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction : a thousand years of amnesia / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan -- The Arabs and the Italian Renaissance / Jack Goody -- Re-orienting the Reformation? : prolegomena to a history of the Reformation's connection with the Islamic world / Frédérique Guerin -- The possible contribution of Islamic legal institutions to the emergence of a rule of law and the modern state in Europe / Lisa Watanabe -- Islamic commerce and finance in the rise of the West / John M. Hobson -- Suppressed or falsified history? : the untold story of Arab-Islamic rationalist philosophy / Samar Attar -- A forgotten debt : humanism and education, from the Orient to the West / Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou -- The Arabic-Latin intercultural transmission of scientific knowledge in pre-modern Europe : historical context and case studies / Mohammed Abattouy -- Way forward : implications for contemporary trans-cultural relations / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012533424
ISBN9780230393202 (hbk.)
ISBN0230393209 (hbk.)

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