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Social Movements, Indigenous Politics and Democratisation in Guatemala, 1985-1996
Drawing on social movement theory, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of collective action during Guatemala's democratic transition (1985-1996) and the accompanying impact of social movements on democratisation, focusing on three indigenous peoples' social movement organisations.
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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture
From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Greco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon. Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on intellect : their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect
The distinction between the potential intellect and the active intellect was first drawn by Aristotle. Medieval Islamic, Jewish, Christian philosophers, and European philosophers in the sixteenth century considered it a possible key to deciphering the nature of man and the universe. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines the treatment of intellect in Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna (980–1037) and Averroes (1126–1198), with particular attention to the way in which they addressed the tangle of issues that grew up around the active intellect.
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When did modern science begin?
Modern science began in Europe where it was established and practiced. The scientific revolution occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, but previous events in the Middle Ages helped bring it about. Of these, the translation of Greek and Arabic philosophical works into Latin was the most pivotal.
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