katakofka
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The influence of the arabic civilisation in Europe
Interesting documentary by the BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0IaCK-7z5o
watch out..1h28min
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Aymara
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Very interesting ... thanks for the tip.
But I prefer the smaller sized videos due to my limited bandwidth.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Lamma Anakhu
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Thanks for sharing katakofka. I had a chance to see this a few months back. It must have been filmed in 2004, as that is when George Saliba,
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Columbia University, was giving his lectures at the Institut du Monde Arabe. I hope they do an update, as
Saliba has since published his marvelous "Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance" (The MIT Press, 2007).
His central thesis in the book is that the idea of how an Islamic translation movement got underway, and when things took place, needed a major
reassessment, right down to the view that the pre-Islamic Arabs were unscientific boobs, living "isolated in a desert environment." The latter he
disproves in "Science before Islam", which is a part of "The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Volume 4: Part I: Science and Technology in Islam"
(UNESCO, 2001). http://www.unesco.org/culture/aic/
Saliba's book on Islamic Sciences is a great hardcover buy for $35 US, as it shows how an awful lot of the what is written about the translation
movement is based on gigantic stacks of not so well thought out supposition, both medieval and modern, western and eastern.
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katakofka
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Geoges Saliba's lecture on that subject
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKINQFNs4jA
this is part 1 out of 7
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mrkmni
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Thanks a lot...
Very interesting! I will download it.
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mary
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wow, what a find- thanks a lot for posting this...
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