Translation Movement and Acculturation in the Medieval Islamic World

• Main Author: Bsoul, Labeeb Ahmed (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Islam.; Literature-Translations.; Middle Eastern literature.; Translation Studies.; Middle Eastern Literature.

This book investigates the transmission of knowledge in the Arab and Islamic world, with particular attention to the translation of material from Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit into Arabic, and then from Arabic into Latin in medieval Western Europe. While most modern scholarly works have addressed con...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Roles experienced by the translation movement
• Chapter One: Translation methods and factors for its advancement
• Chapter Two: Translation centres
• Chapter Three: Early Islamic translation: first/seventh and second/eighth centuries
• Chapter Four: The Translation Movement in the Third/Ninth Chapters
• Chapter Five: Caliphs and Dignitaries Sponsors of the Translation Movement
• Chapter Six: The Toledo School of Translation
• Chapter Seven: Early Islamic Translation and al-MuthÉqafa (Cultural Exchange)
• Conclusion.