Class Policies Class as Intellectual Community Participation Attendance Readings Final Project.
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Class Policies
Class as Intellectual Community
Participation
Attendance
Readings
Final Project
Methodology
How to Read a Primary Source?
The Author
Author-Audience Relation
Audience Expectations
Interpreting Silence
Language
Views and Conceptions
Two Scientific Revolutions
Early Centers of Scholarship
Mapping the FieldRecapping the Story
What is a center of
scholarship?
Places for learning
Resources and institutions
Intellectual communities
About Centers of Scholarship
Attraction
Intellectual Traditions
Relation to power and authority
Relation to other centers
Byzantine Centers
Alexandria
Ancient Alexandria
Christianity
Neoplatonism
Ammonius Hermias and John the Grammarian
Umayyad Alexandria
Islamic Conquest
Role and Importance
Byzantine Centers
Antioch
Byzantine Antioch
The School of Antioch
Relation to Constantinople
Umayyad Antioch
Islamic Conquest
Life in a Frontier Fort
Umayyad Centers
Damascus
The Role of the Capital
Court and Administration
The New Mosque
Early Translations
Umayyad Centers
Basra and Kufa
Basra and Kufa
N.B. The Case of Iraq
Relation to the Capital
Outposts of Arabic Culture
The Politics of Translation
Mecca and Medina
Special Status
Relation to the Capital
Role in the new Caliphate
Jerusalem
Building Umayyad Jerusalem
Role in the new Caliphate
Success and Failure
Special Note
Gundeshapur
The Nestorian Shism
Hellenestic Culture
The School and the Hospital
Sassanid Centers
Gundeshapur
Nestorians in Islam
Nestorians, Persians and Greek
Role in Translation
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