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Class Policies. Class as Intellectual Community Participation Attendance Readings Final Project. Methodology How to Read a Primary Source?. The Author Author-Audience Relation Audience Expectations Interpreting Silence Language Views and Conceptions.
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Class Policies • Class as Intellectual Community • Participation • Attendance • Readings • Final Project
MethodologyHow to Read a Primary Source? • The Author • Author-Audience Relation • Audience Expectations • Interpreting Silence • Language • Views and Conceptions
What is a center of scholarship? • Places for learning • Resources and institutions • Intellectual communities
About Centers of Scholarship • Attraction • Intellectual Traditions • Relation to power and authority • Relation to other centers
Byzantine CentersAlexandria • Ancient Alexandria • Christianity • Neoplatonism • Ammonius Hermias and John the Grammarian
Umayyad Alexandria • Islamic Conquest • Role and Importance
Byzantine CentersAntioch • Byzantine Antioch • The School of Antioch • Relation to Constantinople
Umayyad Antioch • Islamic Conquest • Life in a Frontier Fort
Umayyad CentersDamascus • The Role of the Capital • Court and Administration • The New Mosque • Early Translations
Basra and Kufa • N.B. The Case of Iraq • Relation to the Capital • Outposts of Arabic Culture • The Politics of Translation
Mecca and Medina • Special Status • Relation to the Capital • Role in the new Caliphate
Jerusalem • Building Umayyad Jerusalem • Role in the new Caliphate • Success and Failure
Special NoteGundeshapur • The Nestorian Shism • Hellenestic Culture • The School and the Hospital
Sassanid CentersGundeshapur • Nestorians in Islam • Nestorians, Persians and Greek • Role in Translation