Islamic Crosspollinations

James E. Montgomery is The Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Fellow of Trinity Hall, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

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.