Babylonian and Indian Wisdoms in Islamicate Culture

IF 0.5 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Oriens Pub Date : 2018-11-26 DOI:10.1163/18778372-04603004

Y. Langermann

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Abstract

The interaction of Islamicate civilization with those civilizations that preceded it or were contemporaneous with it has focused for the most part on Hellenistic civilization, and the huge body of scientific and philosophical literature which was translated and absorbed in the first centuries after the appearance of Islam. This paper aims to present two small but much needed correctives to this understanding. In the first section I argue that the “Greek” astronomy that was translated into Arabic ought more correctly to be described as Greco-Babylonian astronomy. In the second I turn to India: not only was a great deal of Indian knowledge absorbed at the time of the great translation movement, we must recall that the exchanges with India carried on well beyond the early Abbasids. I illustrate these points with some new materials in the fields of medicine, philosophy, and alchemy.

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伊斯兰文化中的巴比伦和印度智慧

伊斯兰文明与之前或同时代的文明的互动在很大程度上集中在希腊化文明以及伊斯兰出现后的第一个世纪被翻译和吸收的大量科学和哲学文献上。本文旨在对这一理解提出两个小而急需的纠正措施。在第一节中，我认为被翻译成阿拉伯语的“希腊”天文学应该被更正确地描述为希腊-巴比伦天文学。在第二章中，我谈到了印度：在伟大的翻译运动中，不仅吸收了大量的印度知识，我们还必须记得，与印度的交流远远超过了早期的阿巴斯王朝。我用医学、哲学和炼金术领域的一些新材料来说明这些观点。

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Oriens HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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1.10

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33.30%

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