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#translation-movement
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Did the Latin scholastics really receive Aristotle through Arabic?
I guide visitors around Córdoba, where Ibn Rushd and Maimonides were both born. Almost every group wants the same simple story: the Arabs preserved Greek learning during Europe's dark ages and then handed it back, and that is how Europe got Aristotle.…
Started by Rafael Moreno Gálvez4 replies230 views -
Who was Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and what was new about the way he translated?
I sell books in Baghdad, on the street where booksellers have worked for a very long time. Visitors often ask me about the "House of Wisdom" and the translators of the Abbasid age, and I realise I repeat the same few sentences…
Started by Zainab Kadhim4 replies202 views