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Today's episode will be a special 150th episode

about the transmission of philosophy from Arabic into Latin.

And I'm joined for this episode by two guests, first of all Charles Burnett, who is professor of the history of Arabic Islamic influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute in London.

And secondly, Doug Nicholas Hase, who is professor of philosophy at the University

of Wutzburg.

Hi Charles.

Hello, nice to be here.

And hello, Doug.

Hello.

Thank you both for coming on the program. So I thought Charles I would ask you first just say something general about the translation movement, the Arabic, Latin translation movement. When did it happen and what sorts of

text did they translate? Well it started off at the end of the 10th century and

built up momentum during the 11th century but the apogee really was in the 12th and early 13th century and then it started to tear off towards the end of the 13th century

when all my say most of the things which had to be translated were translated.

We could say that Latin culture, we are talking about culture in which the language of communication of academic communication or

was that in had caught up with Arabic culture and the kinds of texts that

were translated were those that were perceived to be lacking in the Latin West after the early Middle Ages,

once talking about a period in which classical culture which was expressed largely in Greek, had died out in the West, the Tex were no longer there.

The Latin scholars were looking to fill in gaps in their knowledge.

They knew roughly what the range of learning in science,

especially in theoretical science was, and they wanted to fill in the gaps for example in

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