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Reassembling Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq and Iran (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) - Softcover

Benfey, Thomas

 
9781009788915: Reassembling Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq and Iran (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1009788914 ISBN 13: 9781009788915
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The scholars of the Sasanian empire-the late antique superpower whose extensive territories encompassed much of Mesopotamia, the Iranian plateau, and the Caucasus-played a pivotal role in world intellectual history. They developed a distinctive synthesis of Indian and Greco-Roman learning, which would have a formative impact on Islamic civilization in the wake of the empire's fall to Arab armies in the 7th century CE. Drawing on a wide range of texts in languages including Arabic, Middle Persian, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, Thomas Benfey closely examines these scholars, their contributions, and the shifting contexts in which they lived and worked. From the court of the sixth-century King of Kings Khusrō I to early Abbasid Baghdad, this book explores key developments in philosophy, medicine, and astral science and the institutional and historical contexts in which they took place. Benfey highlights the distinctive features of this decisive era, tracing intellectual continuity and change into the early Islamic period.

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About the Author

Thomas Benfey is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ancient History at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His research focuses on late antique and early medieval Iran.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009788914
ISBN 13 
9781009788915
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304