CORDIS Project
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This project focuses on translating the Arabic text of 'Historiae adversus paganos' by Paulus Orosius, which was adapted in the 10th century at the caliphal court of Cordoba. It aims to explore the impact of this work on the understanding of Greco-Roman history in the Islamic world.
The very important topic of the transmission of the Greco-Roman knowledge to the medieval Islamic world has a veryinteresting appendix concerning historiography.
Indeed, scholars have questioned several times about the reasons for theapparent Islamic lack of interest towards the western historical works, and formulated on this problem several assumptions.For example, according to Franz Rosenthal, the Greek and Roman literature, impregnated as it was of polytheism, wouldhave been suspect in the e…
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
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Lebanon, Beirut
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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