Success and Suppression : Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance /
Dag Nikolaus Hasse.
- 1 online resource : 6 halftones
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Note on Terminology, Orthography, and Transliteration -- Part I. The Presence of Arabic Traditions -- 1. Introduction: Editions and Curricula -- 2. Bio-Bibliography: A Canon of Learned Men -- 3. Philology: Translators’ Programs and Techniques -- Part II. Greeks versus Arabs -- 4. Materia medica: Humanists on Laxatives -- 5. Philosophy: Averroes’s Partisans and Enemies -- 6. Astrology: Ptolemy against the Arabs -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix: The Availability of Arabic Authors in Latin Editions of the Renaissance -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Names -- General Index