TY - BOOK PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Globalization of knowledge in the post-antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 PB - Routledge, CY - London KW - Culture and globalization KW - History KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Culture and globalization ; Mediterranean Region ; History KW - Mediterranean Region ; History KW - Mediterranean Region ; Intellectual life KW - Intellectual life AB - 1. From one universal historiography to the other : the reorientation of ancient historiography in byzantium and its reception in Arabic, the Islamic organization of written memory / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- 2. Aspects of craft in the Arabic book revolution / Beatrice Gruendler -- 3. Contexts and content of Thabit ibn Qurra's (died 288/901) construction of knowledge on the balance / Sonja Brentjes and Jurgen Renn -- 4. Monarchs and minorities : "infidel" soldiers in Mediterranean courts / Hussein Fancy -- 5. The synonyma literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Charles Burnett -- 6. The cultural transfer of Zaydi and non-Zaydi religious literature from Northern Iran to Yemen (sixth/twelfth century through eighth/fourteenth century) / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- 7. Iskandar the prophet : religious themes in Islamic versions of the Alexander legend / Anna A. Akasoy. SN - 9781315585147 UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315585147 UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315585147 DO - 10.4324/9781315585147 LA - English N1 - edited by Sonja Brentjes and Jurgen Renn ID - 1697984398 ER -