Six internationally known scholars focus on such important cultural activities of the Middle Ages as education, scholastic theology, pharmacology, international trade, the Clunia Holy War against Islam, and the movement of ideas from East to West. Contributors who first submitted these papers at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies at SUNY Binghamton include: George Makdisi, Claude Cahen, J. Van Ess, Albert Dietrich, Vicente Cantarino, and Anwar Chejne.
Dr. Khalil I. Semaan has published seven books and more than thirty articles in scholarly journals, all on a wide range of topics relating to Middle East culture. A professor of Arabic Studies at SUNY Binghamton, he was coordinator of the conference on that campus at which these collected papers were presented.
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Preface
K I Semaan, SUN Y- Binghamton
Commercial Relations Between the Near East and Western Europe from the VIIth to the XIth Century
Claude Cahen, University of Paris
On the Origin and Development of the College in Islam and the West
George Makdisi, University of Pennsylvania
Islamic Sciences and the Medieval West: Pharmacology
Albert Dietrich, University of Göttingen
Early Islamic Theologians on the Existence of God
Joseph van Ess, University of Tübingen
The Spanish Reconquest: A Cluniac Holy War Against Islam
Vicente Cantarino, University of Texas
The Role of al-Andalus in the Movement of Ideas Between Islam and the West
