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Islam and Sufism

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

by Dimitri Gutas

A study of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad between the eighth and tenth centuries, explaining the social, political and ideological reasons why the Abbasid elite sponsored it. Gutas questions the traditional picture of the 'House of Wisdom'.

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