History traces the evolution of the social structure in which the community exists to-day. There are three chief factors at work in this evolution; racial descent, culture drift, and transmission of language :the first of these physiological and not necessarily connected with the other two, whilst those two are not always associated with each other. In the evolution of the social structure the factor of first importance is the transmission of culture, which is not a matter of heredity but due to contact, for culture is learned and reproduced by imitation and not inherited. Culture must be taken in the widest sense to include political, social, and legal institutions, the arts and crafts, religion, and the various forms of intellectual life which show their presence in literature, philosophy, and otherwise, all more or less connected, and all having the common characteristic that they cannot be passed on by physical descent but must be learned in after life. But race, culture, and language resemble one another in so far as it is true that all are multiplex and perpetually interwoven, so that in each the lines of transmission seem rather like a tangled skein than an ordered pattern; results proceed from a conflicting group of causes amongst which it is often difficult to apportion the relative influences. The culture of modernE urope derives from that of theE oman Empire, itself the multiple resultant of many forces, amongst which the intellectual life of Hellenism was most effective, but worked into a coherent system by the wonderful power of organization, which was one of the most salient characteristics of that Empire.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic R

Arabic Thought and It's Place in History

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Leary, De Lacy

Philosophy

Ams Pr Inc

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages (Trubner's Oriental Series)

Social Sciences

Routledge

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Short History of the Fatimid Khalifate (Trubner's Oriental Series)

History

Arabia Before Muhammad (Trubner's Oriental)

Reference

<p>First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.</p>

Arabic Thought and its Place in History (Trubner's Oriental)

Arabia Before Muhammad

Arabic Thought and its Place in History

A Short History of the Fatimid Khalifate

Well-documented study of the mutual influence of Arabic and Western worlds during the Middle Ages traces the transmission of Greek philosophy and science to the Islamic cultures. A fascinating portrait of medieval Muslim thought, it illustrates commonalities with Judaic and Christian teachings as well as points of divergence.

Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

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