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Exploring Scholarly Centers in Byzantine and Umayyad World: Insights into Learning and Influence

Dive into historical centers of scholarship like Alexandria, Antioch, Damascus, and more. Understand their importance, traditions, and relation to power. Explore how they shaped intellectual communities and learning resources.

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Exploring Scholarly Centers in Byzantine and Umayyad World: Insights into Learning and Influence

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  1. Class Policies • Class as Intellectual Community • Participation • Attendance • Readings • Final Project

  2. MethodologyHow to Read a Primary Source? • The Author • Author-Audience Relation • Audience Expectations • Interpreting Silence • Language • Views and Conceptions

  3. Two Scientific RevolutionsEarly Centers of Scholarship

  4. Mapping the FieldRecapping the Story

  5. What is a center of scholarship? • Places for learning • Resources and institutions • Intellectual communities

  6. About Centers of Scholarship • Attraction • Intellectual Traditions • Relation to power and authority • Relation to other centers

  7. Byzantine CentersAlexandria • Ancient Alexandria • Christianity • Neoplatonism • Ammonius Hermias and John the Grammarian

  8. Umayyad Alexandria • Islamic Conquest • Role and Importance

  9. Byzantine CentersAntioch • Byzantine Antioch • The School of Antioch • Relation to Constantinople

  10. Umayyad Antioch • Islamic Conquest • Life in a Frontier Fort

  11. Umayyad CentersDamascus • The Role of the Capital • Court and Administration • The New Mosque • Early Translations

  12. Umayyad CentersBasra and Kufa

  13. Basra and Kufa • N.B. The Case of Iraq • Relation to the Capital • Outposts of Arabic Culture • The Politics of Translation

  14. Mecca and Medina • Special Status • Relation to the Capital • Role in the new Caliphate

  15. Jerusalem • Building Umayyad Jerusalem • Role in the new Caliphate • Success and Failure

  16. Special NoteGundeshapur • The Nestorian Shism • Hellenestic Culture • The School and the Hospital

  17. Sassanid CentersGundeshapur • Nestorians in Islam • Nestorians, Persians and Greek • Role in Translation

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