Success and Suppression Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance 1st Edition by Dag Nikolaus Hasse ISBN 0674971582 9780674971585

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ISBN 10: 0674971582 
ISBN 13: 9780674971585
Author: Dag Nikolaus Hasse

The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe’s relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in which important Arabic traditions reached the peak of their influence in Europe. On the other hand, it is the time when the West began to forget, and even actively suppress, its debt to Arabic culture. Success and Suppression traces the complex story of Arabic influence on Renaissance thought.

It is often assumed that the Renaissance had little interest in Arabic sciences and philosophy, because humanist polemics from the period attacked Arabic learning and championed Greek civilization. Yet Hasse shows that Renaissance denials of Arabic influence emerged not because scholars of the time rejected that intellectual tradition altogether but because a small group of anti-Arab hard-liners strove to suppress its powerful and persuasive influence. The period witnessed a boom in new translations and multivolume editions of Arabic authors, and European philosophers and scientists incorporated―and often celebrated―Arabic thought in their work, especially in medicine, philosophy, and astrology. But the famous Arabic authorities were a prominent obstacle to the Renaissance project of renewing European academic culture through Greece and Rome, and radical reformers accused Arabic science of linguistic corruption, plagiarism, or irreligion. Hasse shows how a mixture of ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of some Arabic traditions in important areas of European culture, while others continued to flourish.

Success and Suppression Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance 1st Table of contents:

• Chapter 1: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

  • The flourishing of Arabic knowledge during the Abbasid Caliphate.
  • Key figures: Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Alhazen, Al-Khwarizmi, and others.

• Chapter 2: The Transmission of Knowledge

  • How Arabic texts entered Europe: Translations, scholars, and the role of Spain.
  • The role of libraries, translators, and centers of learning like Toledo and Sicily.

• Chapter 3: The Renaissance and the Rediscovery of Arabic Wisdom

  • European thinkers encountering Arabic works during the Renaissance.
  • The revival of interest in Aristotelian philosophy and its Arabic interpretations.

• Chapter 4: The Successes of Arabic Thought in Renaissance Europe

  • The impact of Arabic science on European medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy.
  • Case studies of scholars such as Roger Bacon, Thomas Aquinas, and others incorporating Arabic knowledge.

• Chapter 5: Suppression and Resistance: The Church and Intellectual Challenges

  • The tensions between Islamic intellectual heritage and Christian doctrine.
  • The suppression of “unorthodox” ideas and the challenges faced by Arabic-inspired scholars.

• Chapter 6: The Philosophical Debate: Arabic vs. European Thought

  • Intellectual conflicts: Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, and the legacy of Arabic philosophy.
  • How Arabic philosophy influenced and contrasted with European scholasticism.

• Chapter 7: Legacy and Modern Reappraisal

  • Re-evaluating the Arabic contributions to the modern scientific revolution.
  • Contemporary perspectives on the suppression and rediscovery of Arabic knowledge.

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