Greco-Islamic tradition

Greco-Islamic tradition

Greco-Islamic tradition (similarly, Greco-Islamic legacy, Greco-Islamic science, Greco-Islamic philosophy, and Greco-Islamic medicine) may refer to:
*Scholarship from the Islamic Golden Age, emphasising its roots in Greek philosophy and mathematics:
**Islamic science
**Islamic medicine
**Islamic mathematics
**Early Islamic philosophy
*The Islamic role in the transmission of Greek philosophical ideas in the Middle Ages


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