2. The Historical Causes of the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement
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In Chapter 3, The Rebirth of Philosophy and the Translations into Arabic previous chapter Translation had played a crucial role in the cultural history of multilingual Near Eastern peoples ever since the beginning of the second millennium BC with the translations of Sumerian texts into Akkadian. The conquest of the Near East by Alexander the Great and the ensuing spread of Hellenism and the Greek language led to two significant developments, before the rise of Islam, in the two major indigenou...
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2. The Historical Causes of the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement
in Philosophy in the Islamic World Online: 8th-10th CenturiesSearch for other papers by Dimitri Gutas in
Current site
Google Scholar
(3,011 words)