AL-KINDĪ’S EPISTLE OF DEFINITIONS: THE RECEPTION OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
The expansion of the Arabic language to beyond its historical borders followed the Islamic territorial conquest. The contact with the pockets of Hellenic culture revealed a terminological vacuum in the lexicon of those Bedouins from the Arabic Peninsula, as there was no technical vocabulary to expre...
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Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
2010-04-01
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| Online Access: | http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/3589 |