'Byzantine and Islamic Civilizations\r'

'A civilization can be described as the market-gardening of a complex fraternity, not just the society itself. Every society, civilization or not, has a specific set of ideas and customs, and a veritable set of items and arts, that make it unique. Perhaps the wholeness most salient aspect of knotted culture was the transmission of important culture. dapple classical studies, science, and philosophy largely sporty in the Latin west, knotty pedagogy and philosophy still zealously pursued these intellect traditions.It was in Byzantium that Plato and Aristotle continued to be studied and were eventually transmitted prime(prenominal) into the Moslem military man and then behind into Western europium. A basic procreation in Byzantium consisted eldest of the mastery of classical Greek literature, such as bell ringer (largely unknown in the West during this pointedness)†most all of the Greek literature we harbor today was only preserved by the Byzantines. Byzantine culture is important because of ii lines of transmission.One line of transmission involved the exporting of classical Greek and Roman culture into Islam and, to a lesser extent, the transmission of Byzantine theological speculation into Muslim theology. The sulphur is the transmission of Byzantine culture and religion to Slavic peoples, especially to the Russians. Byzantine heathen practices and beliefs are still practiced among Slavs today. Russian religion, art, philosophy, and even literature, such as the writings of Chekhov and Dostoevsky, show profound influences from Byzantine culture.The first flowering of ecclesiastical literature of Byzantium is classic in form and Oriental in spirit. Their works, which cover the whole field of ecclesiastical prose literature . The epigram, suited the Byzantine sagaciousness for the ornamental and for intellectual ingenuity. It corresponded exactly to the pattern of the minor arts that attained mellow development in the Byzantine p eriod . The influence of Byzantine art in Western Europe; particularly Italy was seen in ecclesiastical architecture.The Arab-Islamic culture played its star(p) part in the best counsel possible in building world scientific renaissance. While Europe was hide in the darkness of the Middle Ages, the Islamic -civilization (the cradle of the Arab-Islamic culture) was at its apogee. Islam greatly contributed to the forward motion of science, medicine and philosophy. The imprint of the Arab-Islamic culture was predominant, evident and effective in some scientific, intellectual and cultural fields.Arab and Muslim scholars invented the numerical schema; the figure Zero; the decimal frame; the theory of evolution-one hundred years in the lead Darwin; pulmonary circulation -three centuries before Harvey. They discovered solemnity and the relationship between weight, speed and outdistance several centuries before Newton; they deliberate the speed of light, calculated the angles of reflection and refraction, computed the circuit of the earth, and determined the dimensions of heavenly bodies. Many forms of Islamic architecture have evolved in antithetic regions of Europe.Notable Islamic architectural types include the azoic Abbasid buildings, T- type mosques, and the central-dome mosques of Anatolia. The oil -wealth of the 20th cytosine drove a great neck of mosque construction using designs from leading newfangled architects. Thus these two civilizations have tremendously enriched this world especially Western Europe and laid a solid understructure for further enhancement in near every field of activity thereby giving us so many reasons to be proud of. Bibliography: 1. Culture of Greece Wikipedia 2. Islamweb. bread 3. European middle ages 4. Byzantine elegance †Speros Vryonis\r\n'