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
Two Scientific Revolutions Early Centers of Scholarship
Mapping the Field Recapping the Story
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 Centers Alexandria Ancient Alexandria Christianity Neoplatonism Ammonius Hermias and John the Grammarian
Umayyad Alexandria Islamic Conquest Role and Importance
Byzantine Centers Antioch Byzantine Antioch The School of Antioch Relation to Constantinople
Umayyad Antioch Islamic Conquest Life in a Frontier Fort
Umayyad Centers Damascus The Role of the Capital Court and Administration The New Mosque Early Translations
Umayyad Centers Basra and Kufa
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 Note Gundeshapur The Nestorian Shism Hellenestic Culture The School and the Hospital
Sassanid Centers Gundeshapur Nestorians in Islam Nestorians, Persians and Greek Role in Translation