Prosperity and stagnation some cultural and social aspects of the abbasid period (750-1258)

Opis książki:

The so-called Abbasid agę - the rule one of the greatest Sunni dynasties of the Muslim empire covering the reign of 37 caliphs -by all means deserves to be thoroughly studied. It was at that time of acculturation when the Islamie world adopted the output of Greek science through Oriental Christianity. A number of medieval thinkers and philosophers who lived under the reign of the Abbasids greatly contributed to the development of Greek, Hindu and other pre-Islamic sources of knowledge. Alexandrian mathematics, geometry and astrol-ogy were considerably developed. The epoch of the Abbasids was the time of powerful and ambivalent inter-religious interaction, the time of cooperation but also the time of persecution of Christians, the time when Muslim schools were fonned and when Christians Consolidated on Islamie territory.
Publication Prosperity and Stagnation. Some Cultural and Social Aspects of the Abbasid Period is of an interdisciplinary character presenting the richness of the epoch in a form of studies. The papers presented by the scholars constitute the fruit of their long-standing work on these specialist yet extraordinarily significant issues. Some of the experiences of the epoch may prove useful for the contemporary dialogue of civilizations, whereas the others constitute examples of mistakes to be avoided in the future.

Książka "Prosperity and stagnation some cultural and social aspects of the abbasid period (750-1258)" - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Unum. Książka posiada 115 stron i została wydana w 2010 r.