Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2. Arabic learning
3. A new learning
4. Jewish reception
5. Schools in Islam
1. Islam and the ancient sciences
Islam and the ancient sciences
– astronomy: Ptolemy
– translations
– translators
Cordoba (Al-Andalus)
Seville (Al-Andalus)
Granada (Al-Andalus)
Baghdad (Irak)
Aleppo (Syria)
Isfahan (Persia)
Arabic learning
– Indians
– Greeks
• Ptolemy
1. Moon
2. Mercury
3. Venus
4. Sun
5. Mars
6. Jupiter
7. Saturn
8. sphere of fixed stars
Arabic learning
• sexual complexion
astrologers taught
– to determine paternity
astrology tells us
– what you do
– understanding men
– understanding world
– understanding God
the philosophers
the philosophers
Aristotelism
4. Jewish reception
Jewish reception
schools in Islam
masjid (madrasah)
schools taught
– traditional sciences
– Arabic
the basis of all traditional sciences is the legal material of the Quran and
the Sunna, which is the law given us by God and his messenger, as
well as the sciences connected with that material, by means of which
we are enabled to utilize it. This, further, requires as auxiliary
sciences the sciences of the Arabic language. Arabic is the language of
Islam, and the Quran was revealed in it
schools in Islam
philosophical
sciences