Success and Suppression : : Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance / / Dag Nikolaus Hasse.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Hasse, Dag Nikolaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.) :; 6 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Note on Terminology, Orthography, and Transliteration --; Part I. The Presence of Arabic Traditions --; 1. Introduction: Editions and Curricula --; 2. Bio-Bibliography: A Canon of Learned Men --; 3. Philology: Translators' Programs and Techniques --; Part II. Greeks versus Arabs --; 4. Materia medica: Humanists on Laxatives --; 5. Philosophy: Averroes's Partisans and Enemies --; 6. Astrology: Ptolemy against the Arabs --; 7. Conclusion --; Appendix: The Availability of Arabic Authors in Latin Editions of the Renaissance --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index of Names --; General Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674973664; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674973664
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dag Nikolaus Hasse.

Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.