RN242 Midterm 1 Vocabulary

Muslim ruling empire after the Umayyad caliphate was over thrown.

• Mughal Empire
• Ottoman Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• Abbasid caliphate

Scholar, philosopher; Translated Greek and Arabic works into latin; peddler of the translation movement that demanded more translations in Europe.

• Adelard of Bath

• Peter Abelard

• St. Martin of Braga

• Richer of Rheims

Study of changes in matter; Art of turning base metals to gold; Spiritual endeavor whose aim is to transmute imperfect human soul into more perfect entity; Form of natural (occult) magic

• Chemistry
• Astrology
• Witchcraft
• Alchemy

these were often imbued with holy artifacts inside them were the remains of priests

• Relics

• amulets

• curse tablets

• feet

jurist, philosopher, medicine, astronomy Wrote a detailed response to al-Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers, titled Incoherence of the Incoherence

• Avicenna
• Al-Farabi
• Ibn Rushd
• Averroes

a platonist and traveling lecturer of the second century A.D. who had a certain interest in occult science and accused of witchcraft in North Africa.

• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Apuleius
• Plato

Science of the Medieval Islamic world

• Elf Science

• English Science

• French Science

• Arabic Science

“Our world operates predictably due to the inherent nature of natural objects. These objects exhibit specific behaviors as long as no significant hindrance occurs.”

• Chaos
• theory of matter

• Randomness theory

• Aristotelian theory of matter

Greek and Roman god of healing

• Zeus
• Hermes
• Apollo
• Asclepius

Science of Movements of the stars

• Chemistry
• Physics
• Astronomy

• Biology