Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

London: Routedge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1954 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-Very Good +. vii (i), 327 pp, foreword, I. The Syriac Version of Hellenism; II. The Arab Period; III. The Coming of the 'Abbasids'; IV. The Translators; V. The Mu'tazilites; ; VI. The Eastern Philosophers; VII. Sufism; VIII. Orthodox Scholasticism; IX. The Western Philosophy; X. The Jewish Transmittors; XI. Influence of the Arabic Philosophers on Latin Scholasticism; Concluding Paragraph; chronological table, bibliography, index. Reprinted, 1954.. "It is the intent of this book to trace the transmission of Hellenistic thought through the medium of Muslim philosophers and Jewish thinkers who lived in Muslim surroundings, to show how this thought, modified as it passed through a period of development in the Muslim community and itself modifying Islamic ideas, was brought to bear upon the culture of mediaeval Latin Christendom. So greatly had it altered in external form during the centuries of its life apart, that it seemed a new type of intellectual life and became a disturbing factor which diverted Christian philosophy into new lines and tended to disintegrate the traditional theology of the Church, directly leading up to the Renascence which gave a death-blow to mediaeval culture: so little had it altered in real substance that it used the same text-books and treated very much the same problems already current in the earllier scholasticism which had developed independently in Latin Christendom. It will be the intent of this book to trace the history of mediaeval Muslim thought as to show the elements which it had in common with Christian teaching and to account for the points of divergence." from the Foreword. Not Price Clipped. 1" closed tear to bottom edge rear panel dj with minor edge wear, age-toned spine, partially age-toned rear panel, and partially foxed front panel of same, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..