How the Human Arrived in Islam and Then Disappeared : From Athens to Baghdad /
This book argues that while the concept of the human being was a Greek invention, its reinvention was Arab before it was European. Born in Greece in the fourth century BCE, this concept of the human being disappeared at the end of Late Antiquity, before reappearing in the Abbasid Near East. It was M...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
Series:
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ;
195.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: R930