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Europe and Islam Cardini, Franco. Europe and Islam. trans. Caroline Beamish. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 2001. This book provides insight into contacts with Europeans and Muslims, and their relationships. It will help me to better understand the interactions of these two groups. ***all quoted*** 90-the Iberian peninsula was the real home of the scientific revival in the westa 90-scientific knowledge diffused throughout the muslim world via the language of the holy Koran, had made a promising start in the ibernain peninsula thanks to an earlier scholar, Gerbert of Aurillac, wno traveled to catalonia as a very young man. Between 967 an 970, he had learned the rudiments of Arabic arimetic and arsronmy in the bishops cruia in Vich. Having b/cm head of the spiscopla college in Reims, then abbot of Bobbio, Gerbert was able to share his learning b/f ascending to the papal throne, with the fateful name of Sylvester II. 90-This process, which began mainly in spain, and in which peter the Vernerbales team of translators undoubtedly took part, would have been less straightforward and certainly much less rapid and productive if contact with arab culture had no suddenly been made indispensable by a sudden overwhelming growth in the economy and in trade. 91- The latins did not simply receive this vast body of knowledge, they elaborated it enormously 91-Medicine was for a long time a favored subject for translation. Alfano, a monk from Montescassio, translated several tects from Greek in the 11th century. In the latter half of the 11th c however, another monk from montescassino, Constantine the arican who came fro what is today Tunisia, increased the medical libraries of the west enormously by translating into latin from Arabic and from greek books. One important center of medical studies was Selerno, where scientific knowledge was obtained from greek culture, from the arab work (via sicily and north Africa) anf from jewish culture. 91-The books on math and medicine, and their translationos were a response to practicle and technical needs. 91-Ibn sina- wrote the canon, which was still in use in the universities of Europe in the 17th c. he was the most famous author of medical texts in the west after the classical authors hippocrates and galen.

93- was the 13th c pro-islamic? It was certainly one of the greatest centuries in European thought and crucial to the building of the cultural identity of the continent. It also remains

one of the moments in history when christinaity and islam- in spite of the crusades, or perhaps b/c of them- we closest together. 93-The relationship btwn the two civilizations, or their association shows both societies in a favorable light. 96- The fact that sicily at that period became a center of aristotlian thought, filtered principally through the work of avicenna and averroes, was due to Michael scot. He himself was interested in many respects, alchemy and physiognomy. He wrote copiously on the two latter subjects, heavily influence in his works by ar-razi, Abu Ma’ shar and alFarghani.