Table of Contents

Preface (James Montgomery); Abbreviations; The Lamp and the Wine Flask: Early Muslim Interest in Christian Monasticism (Elizabeth Key Fowden); Greek Myth and Arabic Poetry at Qusayr 'Amra (Garth Fowden); The Influence of the Arabic Tradition of Falconry and Hunting on Western Europe (Anna Akasoy); The Pre-Socratics in Arabic Philosophical Pseudo-Epigrapha (Ulrich Rudolph); Islamic Medicine Crosspollinated: a Multilingual and Multiconfessional Maze (Peter Pormann); Byzantine, Western European, Islamic and Central Asian Influence in the Field of Arms and Armour from the Seventh to Fourteenth Century AD (David Nicolle); Memories of Egypt in Medieval Venice (Deborah Howard); Latin Averroism (John Marenbon); Islamic Crosspollinations (James Montgomery); Contributors.

About the Author

James Montgomery is Reader in Classical Arabic at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He has published widely on Classical Arabic Islamic intellectual systems and early Arabic poetry. Anna Akasoy is a Research assistant at the Warburg Institute. She has published works on intellectual history in the medieval Islamic world, among them The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics. Peter E Pormann received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2002. For his thesis, he was awarded The Hellenic Foundation's 2003 Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom, in the Byzantine/Medieval History category. He has written extensively on the Late Antique Greek Medical Tradition and its influence on the formation of Islamic medical theory and practice.