Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past

Casagrande-Kim, Roberta, Samuel Thrope, and Julia Rubanovich, eds., Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018) Within a century of the Arab Muslim conquest of vast territories in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam became the inheritor of the intellectual legacy of classical antiquity. In an epochal cultural … Continue reading Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past →