Ancient authority in Arabic-Islamic scientific writing and practice

Malik, Saira ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1959-610X 2025. Ancient authority in Arabic-Islamic scientific writing and practice. Totelin, Laurence and Perkins, Emma, eds. Tool, Techniques, and Technologies: Essays on Ancient Science and its Reception in Honour of Liba Taub, Vol. 10. Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception, De Gruyter, pp. 169-190.

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Abstract

The process of Islamic “ideas on the move” occurred within the intellec- tual space created initially by the industrial-scale translation activity of the “Greco- Arabic Translation Movement” (8th–10th centuries). Translation of Greek works by those such as Euclid, Ptolemy, and Aristotle rendered their names as ancient au- thorities in this Islamic intellectual space. These ancient authorities were used and re-used — shaped and re-shaped — in a myriad of ways and forms in this Islamic intellectual space. In this essay, I use the medical writings of Ibn Sīnā (Latin Avi- cenna, d. c. 1037CE) and the optical writings of Ibn al-Haytham (Latin Alhazen, d. c. 1040CE) to show how these ancient Greek authorities were appropriated.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc C Auxiliary Sciences of History > C Auxiliary sciences of history (General) C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization D History General and Old World > D History (General) P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures P Language and Literature > PJ Semitic P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	De Gruyter
ISBN:	9783111009940
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2025 11:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175825

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