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First translation activities in Islamic science history and their contribution to knowledge production
With economic relations and conquests, Muslims have spread to a very wide geographical area. Consequently, they have encountered many different cultures. Muslims have had great interest and curiosity towards new cultures especially those of Byzantine (Helen / Greek), Iran and partly of the Indian cu...
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Published in: | Cumhuriyet ilahiyat dergisi 2018, Vol.22 (1), p.705-730 |
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Summary: | With economic relations and conquests, Muslims have spread to a very wide
geographical area. Consequently, they have encountered many different cultures. Muslims
have had great interest and curiosity towards new cultures especially those of Byzantine
(Helen / Greek), Iran and partly of the Indian cul tures. Especially, the conquest of cities such
as Alexandria, Harran and Jundīshāpūr and the scientific tradition in these cities had great
influence on Muslims. After these conquests, Muslims not only studied Islamic sciences but
also began the activities of translation into Arabic to get familiar with ancient tradition of
thought and culture. These first translation activities, which are extremely important in terms
of Islamic civilization and the history of science, have been studied extensively to date.
However, it is observed that during the studies performed, the only information mentioned
were usually the names of the translated works, the domains of study they were written for
and the names of interpreters. This study aims to shed light on the first translation activities
in the History of Islamic Science, as well as the fields in which these translations were done,
the knowledge and the accumulation of Muslims in these fields before translation activities
and the contribution of translation activities in develop- ment or change in these fields by
providing examples from Muslim scientists in different centuries, whose works are also known
in the West. The golden era of Muslims in science and technology between the 8th and 11th
centuries and some important scientific activities carried out within this period are analyzed
in three periods; “acquisition of the information”, “systematization of the information” and
“production of original information”.With economic relations and conquests, Muslims have spread to a very wide
geographical area. Consequently, they have encountered many different cultures. Muslims
have had great interest and curiosity towards new cultures especially those of Byzantine
(Helen / Greek), Iran and partly of the Indian cul tures. Especially, the conquest of cities such
as Alexandria, Harran and Jundīshāpūr and the scientific tradition in these cities had great
influence on Muslims. After these conquests, Muslims not only studied Islamic sciences but
also began the activities of translation into Arabic to get familiar with ancient tradition of
thought and culture. These first translation activities, which are extremely important in |
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ISSN: | 2528-987X |
DOI: | 10.18505/CUID.430696 |