Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West : Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations

Al-rodhan, Nayef R. F. (EDT); Abattouy, Mohammed (CON); Attar, Samar (CON); Goody, Jack (CON)

ISBN 10: 0230393209 / ISBN 13: 9780230393202

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West : Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230393209
• ISBN 13: 9780230393202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance.

About the Author

NAYEF R.F. AL-RODHAN is Senior Member of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is also Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Geopolitics of Globalization and Transnational Security at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. He is a philosopher, neuroscientist, and geostrategist. A prize-winning scholar, he has published 21 books proposing many innovative concepts and theories in global politics and security. He was educated at Yale University, the Mayo Clinic and Harvard University. He is best known for several philosophical and analytic books on global politics that include: The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West; Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space; Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man; Emotional Amoral Egoism; Neo-Statecraft and Meta-Geopolitics; The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies and Symbiotic Realism.