How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs
De Lacy O'Leary, D.D.


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Contents

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
HELLENISM IN ASIA
(1) HELLENIZATION OF SYRIA
(2) THE FRONTIER PROVINCES
(3) FOUNDATION OF JUNDI-SHAPUR
(4) DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE
CHAPTER III
THE LEGACY OF GREECE
(1) ALEXANDIUAN SCIENCE
(2) PHILOSOPHY
(3) GREEK MATHEMATICIANS
(4) GREEK MEDICINE
CHAPTER IV
CHRISTIANITY AS A HELLENIZING FORCE
(1) HELLENISTIC ATMOSPHERE OF CHRISTIANITY
(2) EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY
(3) ECCLESIASTTCAL ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER V
THE NESTORIANS
(1) THE FIRST SCHOOL OF NISIBIS
(2) SCHOOL OF EDESSA
(3) THE NESTORIAN SCHISM
(4) DARK PERIOD OF THE NESTORIAN CHURCH
(5) THE NESTORIAN REFORMATION
CHAPTER VI
THE MONOPHYSITES
(1) BEGINNINGS OF MONOPHYSITISM
(2) THE MONOPHYSITE SCHISM
(3) PERSECUTION OF THE MONOPHYSITES
(4) ORGANIZATION OF THE MONOPHYSITE CHURCH
(5) PERSIAN MONOPHYSITES
CHAPTER VII
INDIAN INFLUENCE-THE SEA ROUTE
(1) THE SEA ROUTE TO INDIA
(2) ALEXANDRIAN SCIENCE IN INDIA
CHAPTER VIII
INDIAN INFLUENCE II-THE LAND ROUTE
(1) BACTRIA
(2) THE ROAD THROUGH MARW
CHAPTER IX
BUDDHISM AS A POSSIBLE MEDIUM
(1) RISE OF BUDDHISM
(2) DID BUDDHISM SPREAD WEST?
(3) BUDDHIST BACTRIA
(4) IBRAHIM IBN ADHAM
CHAPTER X
THE KHALIFATE OF DAMASCUS
(1) CONQUEST OF SYRIA
(2) THE FAMILY OF SERGIUS
(3) THE CAMP CITIES
CHAPTER XI
THE KHALIFATE OF BAGHDAD
(1) THE 'ABBASID REVOLUTION
(2) FOUNDATION OF BAGHDAD
CHAPTER XII
TRANSLATION INTO ARABIC
(1) THE FIRST TRANSLATORS
(2) HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ
(3) OTHER TRANSLATORS
(4) THABIT IBN QURRA
CHAPTER XIII
THE ARAB PHILOSOPHERS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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