Arabic Thought and Its Place in History
ARABIC THOUGHT AND ITS PLACE
IN HISTORY
BY
DE LACY O’LEARY, D.D.
Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, Bristol University
London:
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1922
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| Foreword | v | |
| I | The Syriac Version of Hellenism | 1 |
| II | The Arab Period | 56 |
| III | The Coming of the ‘Abbasids | 89 |
| IV | The Translators | 105 |
| V | The Mu‘tazilites | 123 |
| VI | The Eastern Philosophers | 135 |
| VII | Sufism | 181 |
| VIII | Orthodox Scholasticism | 208 |
| IX | The Western Philosophy | 226 |
| X | The Jewish Transmittors | 261 |
| XI | Influence of the Arabic Philosophers on Latin Scholasticism | 275 |
| Concluding Paragraph | 295 | |
| Chronological Table | 296 | |
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