Peter E Pormann

Greek Culture and Society: Classics and Islam

What is Islam? Malise Ruthven, Islam: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) Michael Cook, The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) The Hellenised East Irfan Shahd, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, pt. 1, 1995; pt. 2.1, 2002; pt. 2.2, in preparation) Robert Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (London: Routledge, 2001) The First Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (63261) and the Umayyad Dynasty (661749) Garth Fowden, Quayr Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) The Abbsid Dynasty (7511258) Hugh Kennedy, The Courts of the Caliphs (London: Orion, 2005) The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement Dimitri Gutas, Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbsid Society (2nd4th/ 8th10th Centuries) (London: Routledge, 1998) Philosophy in the Islamic World Peter Adamson, Al-Kindi, Great Medieval Thinkers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Peter Adamson, Richard Taylor, Cambridge Compendium to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Peter E Pormann

Greek Culture and Society: Classics and Islam

Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann, The Philosophical Works of al-Kind (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011) [in press] Medieval Islamic Medicine Peter E Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicie, New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007) Peter E. Pormann, Islamic Medical and Scientic Tradition, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, 4 vols (Routledge: London, 2011) The Mathematics and the Sciences Roshdi Rashed, (ed.) Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, 3 vols (London: Routledge, 1996) The Arabo-Latin Translation Movement Charles Burnett, The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Programme in Toledo in the Twelfth Century, Science in Context 14 (2001), 24988 Charles Burnett, Danielle Jacquart (eds), Constantine the African and Al ibn al-Abbs al-Mas: The Pantegni and Related Texts (Leiden: Brill, 1994) Arabo-Islamic Learning and the Renaissance Georges Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology (Boston: The MIT Press, 2007) [but see review article by Peter E. Pormann, Arabic Astronomy and the Copernican Revolution, in: Annals of Science 67 (2010), 2438 Nancy Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and the Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987)

Peter E Pormann

Greek Culture and Society: Classics and Islam

Peter E. Pormann, The Dispute between the Philarabic and Phihellenic Physicians and the Forgotten Heritage of Arabic Medicine, in Pormann, Islamic Medical and Scientic Tradition, ii. 283316 The Classical Tradition in Modern Arabic Literature and Thought Peter E Pormann, The Arab Cultural Awakening (Naha), 1870 1950, and the Classical Tradition, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13.1 (Summer 2006), 320 id., The Arabic Homer: An Untold Story, Classical and Modern Literature (May 2007), 2744 id., Classics and Islam: From Homer to al-Qida, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 16 (2009), 197233 id, The Continuing Tradition of Arab Humanism, review article of Michael Kreutz, Arabischer Humanismus in der Neuzeit, Philosophy in international context 1 (Berlin: Lit-Verlag 2007), in: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 17 (2010), 95106