Chronological Table : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 296 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Years from the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the fall of the Muwahhid dynasty in Spain. A.H. A.D. MUSLIM YEAR BEGINS. LEADING EVENTS. 11 632 Mar. 29 d. of Muhammad. Abu Bakr Khalif. 12 633 18 13...
Chapter Vi. The Eastern Philosophers : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 135 CHAPTER VI THE EASTERN PHILOSOPHERS The Aristotelian philosophy was first made known to the Muslim world through the medium of Syriac translations and commentaries, and the particular commentaries used amongst...
Chapter I. The Syriac Version Of Hellenism : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 1 CHAPTER I THE SYRIAC VERSION OF HELLENISM The subject proposed in the following pages is the history of the cultural transmission by which Greek philosophy and science were passed from Hellenistic surroundings...
Chapter Ix. Western Philosophy : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 226 CHAPTER IX WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Muslim rule in North Africa west of the Nile valley was commenced under conditions very different from those prevailing in Egypt and Syria. The Arabs found this land occupied by...
Chapter Iii. The Coming Of The Abbasids : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 89 CHAPTER III THE COMING OF THE ABBASIDS The rule of the Umayyads had been a period of tyrannical oppression on the part of the Arab rulers upon their non-Arab subjects and especially upon the "mawali" or converts drawn...
Foreword : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. iii FOREWORD History traces the evolution of the social structure in which the community exists to-day. There are three chief factors at work in this evolution; racial descent, culture drift, and transmission of language:...
Chapter X. The Jewish Transmittors : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 261 CHAPTER X THE JEWISH TRANSMITTORS We have already seen that the Jews took a prominent part in bringing a knowledge of philosophical research from Asia to Spain, and Ibn Jabirul (Avencebrol) takes his place in the line...
Title Page : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], ARABIC THOUGHT AND ITS PLACE IN HISTORY BY DE LACY OLEARY London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., [1922] Scanned, proofed and formatted , December 2007 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public...
Concluding Paragraph : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 295 CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH We have now traced the transmission of a particular type of Hellenistic culture through the Syrian Church, the Zoroastrians of Persia, and the pagans of Harran to the Islamic community, where it...
Chapter V. The Mutazilites : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 123 CHAPTER V THE MUTAZILITES When the Aristotelian philosophy was first made known to the Muslim world it was received almost as a revelation supplementing the Quran. At that time it was very imperfectly understood...
Untitled : * The transmission of ancient Greek philosophy to the forerunners of the Renaissance was through the Islamic world. This book details each of the steps along that path, identifying the Syriac writers of the late classical period as introducing Hellenic philosophy into the Middle East. The book...
Chapter Iv. The Translators : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 105 CHAPTER IV THE TRANSLATORS One of the first and most significant indications of the new orientation of Muslim thought was the extensive production of Arabic translations of works dealing with philosophical...
Chapter Ii. The Arab Period : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 56 CHAPTER II THE ARAB PERIOD Islam in its earlier form was entirely an Arab religion. The temporal side of the Prophet Muhammad's mission shows him engaged in an effort to unite the tribes of the Hijaz in a fraternal...
Chapter Xi. Influence Of The Arabic Philosophers : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 275 CHAPTER XI INFLUENCE OF THE ARABIC PHILOSOPHERS ON LATIN SCHOLASTICISM We have now followed the way in which Hellenistic philosophy was passed from the Greeks to the Syrians, from the Syrians to the Arabic-speaking...
Chapter Vii. Sufism : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 181 CHAPTER VII SUFISM Sufism or Islamic mysticism, which becomes prominent in the course of the 3rd cent. A.H., was partly a product of Hellenistic influences, and exercised a considerable influence on the philosophers...
Chapter Viii. Orthodox Scholasticism : * "Arabic Thought and its Place in History", by De Lacy O'Leary, [1922], p. 208 CHAPTER VIII ORTHODOX SCHOLASTICISM The formation of an orthodox scholasticism within the Muslim church appears as a development spread over the 4th-5th centuries of the Hijra (10-11 cent. A.D.), and is in three str...