Warriors of the cloisters : the Central Asian origins of science in the medieval world / Christopher I. Beckwith.
2012
Q124.97 .B43 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Warriors of the cloisters : the Central Asian origins of science in the medieval world / Christopher I. Beckwith.
ISBN
9780691155319 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0691155313 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0691155313 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Publication Details
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 211 p. ; 24 cm
Call Number
Q124.97 .B43 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.58/0902
Summary
"In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. He shows how the method was adopted by Islamic Central Asian natural philosphers - most importantly by Avicenna, one of the most brilliant of all medieval thinkers - and transmitted to the West when Avicenna's works were translated into Latin in Spain in the twelfth century by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Dā'ūd and others. -- Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The recursive argument method of medieval science
From college and universitas to university
Buddhist Central Asian invention of the method
Islamization in classical Arabic Central Asia
Transmission to medieval Western Europe
India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and other control cases.
From college and universitas to university
Buddhist Central Asian invention of the method
Islamization in classical Arabic Central Asia
Transmission to medieval Western Europe
India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and other control cases.