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The Translation Movement

Further Reading

Greek Thought, Arab Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasid Society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) (Arabic Thought & Culture) by Dimitri Gutas (Routledge, 1998)

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Peter Adamson (Editor), Richard C. Taylor (Editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Medieval Islamic Medicine by Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba (Cambridge MA & London: MIT Press, 2007)


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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West

MuslimHeritage.com: Tracing the Impact of Latin Translations of Arabic Texts on European Society

Professor Peter Pormann's podcast about the translation movement


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