HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Efflorescence, Sharia, Alchemy
17 Nov 2020
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Under the caliphs haru n "al-rash d (786 809) and "al-ma"mu n (813 833) they began to gather scholars, manuscripts, and translators on an enormous scale and establish a. Library of wisdom (khizanat "al-hikma) in their new capital. Most of the scholars at the library of wisdom were ethnically syrian, armenian, or arab. Christians primarily nestorians who had already assimilated greek science and philosophy into a christian worldview. A type of spiritual vocabulary had developed among these scholars that enabled them to bring this knowledge into the new vehicle of the arab tongue. The baghdad scholars translated the persian scientific tradition as well. bringing astronomical, mathematical, alchemical, and botanical works out of sanskrit and. As these newly arabized texts circulated throughout the empire, more schools, libraries, and translation centers were established. Islamic science began to take on a more specifically arab islamic cast.
