Download or read book The Libraries of the Neoplatonists written by Cristina D' Ancona and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transmission of Greek learning to the Arabic-speaking world paved the way to the rise of Arabic philosophy. This volume offers a deep and multifarious survey of transmission of Greek philosophy through the schools of late Antiquity to the Syriac-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds.