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Medieval Islam : a study in cultural orientation / Gustave E. von Grunebaum.

By: Grunebaum, Gustave E. von (Gustave Edmund), 1909-1972Contributor(s): History E-Book Project | American Council of Learned SocietiesMaterial type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookOriental Institute essay: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1953Edition: 2d edDescription: 1 online resource (vii, 378 p.) : maps (on lining papers)ISBN: 0226310256; 9780226310251Subject(s): Islamic civilizationAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval Islam.LOC classification: D199.3 | .V64 1953Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
Islam in the medieval world: the mood of the times -- Islam in the medieval world: Christendom and Islam -- The religious foundation: revelation -- The religious foundation: piety -- The body politic: law and the state -- The body politic: the social order -- The human ideal -- Self-expression: literature and history -- Creative borrowing: Greece in the "Arabian Nights".
Summary: This book has grown out of a series of public lectures delivered in the spring of 1945 in the Division of the Humanities of the University of Chicago. It proposes to outline the cultural orientation of the Muslim Middle Ages, with eastern Islam as the center of attention. It attempts to characterize the medieval Muslim's view of himself and his peculiarly defined universe, the fundamental intellectual and emotional attitudes that governed his works, and the mood in which he lived his life. It strives to explain the structure of his universe in terms of inherited, borrowed, and original elements, the institutional framework within which it functioned, and its place in relation to the contemporary Christian world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islam in the medieval world: the mood of the times -- Islam in the medieval world: Christendom and Islam -- The religious foundation: revelation -- The religious foundation: piety -- The body politic: law and the state -- The body politic: the social order -- The human ideal -- Self-expression: literature and history -- Creative borrowing: Greece in the "Arabian Nights".

This book has grown out of a series of public lectures delivered in the spring of 1945 in the Division of the Humanities of the University of Chicago. It proposes to outline the cultural orientation of the Muslim Middle Ages, with eastern Islam as the center of attention. It attempts to characterize the medieval Muslim's view of himself and his peculiarly defined universe, the fundamental intellectual and emotional attitudes that governed his works, and the mood in which he lived his life. It strives to explain the structure of his universe in terms of inherited, borrowed, and original elements, the institutional framework within which it functioned, and its place in relation to the contemporary Christian world.

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