Class Presentation - The Translation Movement and Arabic-Islamic Philosophy - Video
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Welcome back everyone and welcome to our penultimate lecture. We have one more lecture after this one. We have a lot to cover in this particular lecture, so I'll be using most of the time up. So please try and bear with me and obviously you…
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5:28Chapter 2: And then they will move on actually to not the 16th, but rather the 15th century and something called the Enlightenment. 271s · Speaker 1
And then they will move on actually to not the 16th, but rather the 15th century and something called the Enlightenment. When Europe became enlightened and intellectually open and more advanced, which led us to something called the Renaissa…
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this decision to establish christianity as a trinitarian doctrine In other words, there were various forms of Christianity that were being practiced at the time. But in the early 6th century, he decided that all the Christianity that Byzant…
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15:00Chapter 4: happen okay so we have to look at why might Baghdad become this epicenter of the Golden Age, whereas Damascus didn't. 257s · Speaker 3
happen okay so we have to look at why might Baghdad become this epicenter of the Golden Age, whereas Damascus didn't. And obviously the answer lies in, as you might already have guessed, that Damascus was under the Umayyads and Baghdad was …
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Now immediately, if you're familiar a little bit with the Qur'an, you'll remember that in the Qur'an, paradise, so paradise is mentioned as dhar as-salam, right? Literally the abode of peace. So in that sense, really immediately the Abbasid…
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24:36Chapter 6: for a lot of these people coming into Baghdad, which was this new, developing, innovative intellectual society. 311s · Speaker 1
for a lot of these people coming into Baghdad, which was this new, developing, innovative intellectual society. And one of the most important figures associated with the Beit al-Hikmah indeed was the student of Yuhanna ibn Masaway, even tho…
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because now we don't really pay a lot of attention to translation as an activity because of course translation it can be done by google or some other ai entity but that At that time it was considered a genuine skill and people were willing …
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from greek or persian or indian languages like sanskrit directly into arabic but direct translation wasn't that common actually okay direct translation from greek into arabic wasn't that common in actual fact it often took place through an …
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39:50Chapter 9: Several reasons. 308s · Speaker 2
Several reasons. First of all, they built their capital of Baghdad in a perfectly situated geographical location. among the existing intellectual traditions of the day. But that's not the only reason, as we already mentioned. The other reas…
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45:01Chapter 10: The most important form of philosophy that the Muslims really encountered in translation was something called Neoplatinism. 325s · Speaker 2
The most important form of philosophy that the Muslims really encountered in translation was something called Neoplatinism. which was the last of the great classical schools that we just mentioned, and indeed was a synthesis of them. So it …
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Because of this activity, he is known by the honorific title of Fayla Suf al-Arab, or the philosopher of the Arabs, because he was the first one, right? Okay? But he certainly wasn't the only one. And the next figure, he... So in other word…
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So they were primarily, the first of those was Al-Farabi. Abu Nasr, Muhammad ibn Muhammad Al-Farabi, or just Al-Farabi. who is commonly referred to as the second teacher. His second teacher. Because of his contributions, as we can see here,…
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So that's the tension I talked about earlier, that you can know unseen things through rational inquiry, or can you only know them through revelation? And that was his position. You can only know about those unseen matters through religious …
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Okay, simultaneously we find in the Hadith, if there was a black ant on a black rock in the midst of night, something that is undetectable, he would know it. So in this sense, we find that, you know, from a Muslim's faith perspective, God k…
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1:06:00Chapter 15: And there are many mentioned in your book, like Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Ubadjah. 306s · Speaker 2
And there are many mentioned in your book, like Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Ubadjah. But by far the most important and most significant and famous is this figure called Ibn Rushd. Okay, Abul Waleed, Muhammad, Ibn Ahmad, Ibn Rushd. Who is commonly re…
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and to see really what was the influence of all of this on the rest of the world, which is kind of one of the points of looking at Arabic heritage. So in our earlier map, what we saw is that everything was coming into Baghdad, right? Everyt…
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And after today, I'll be able to highlight all the details related to the final exam for you and let you know exactly what will be happening. I have office hours. I mean, office hours are by appointment in the traditional times. So if someo…