Islam and Cultural Change in the Middle Ages: 4. Giorgio Levi Della Vida Biennial Conference, May 11-13, 1973, Near Eastern Center, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles

163 Pages·1975·10.56 MB·English

by  Speros Vryonis Jr.

GIORGIO LEVI DELLA VIDA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
PUBLICATIONS
Edited by Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Logic in Classical Islamic Culture (1970)
Theology and Law in Islam (1971)
Arabic Poetry: Theory and Development (1973)

GIORGIO LEVI DELLA VIDA CONFERENCES
Speros Vryonis Jr., General Editor
Published under the Auspices of the
Near Eastern Center
University of California
Los Angeles
FOURTH GIORGIO LEVI DELLA VIDA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
May 11-13, 1973
Near Eastern Center
University of California, Los Angeles
ISLAM AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Edited by
SPEROS VRYONIS Jr.
The Giorgio Levi Delia Vida Medal of the Near Eastern Center, University
of California, Los Angeles, is awarded biennially to give recognition to an
outstanding scholar whose work has significantly and lastingly advanced the
study of Islamic civilization. The field is understood to include antecedents and
interaction with historically connected centers of civilization. The scholar is
selected by a committee appointed by the chancellor of the University of
California, Los Angeles, meeting under the chairmanship of the director of the
Near Eastern Center. The composition of the committee is intended to reflect
the conviction that Near Eastern studies are most creative and effective if
integrated with other historical and social science research.
The award carries with it a bronze medal and a prize of money together with
the obligation to present in person a formal lecture at the University of Cali­
fornia, Los Angeles, as part of a conference the topic of which the recipient
selects. The proceedings of the conferences are published as separate volumes
in a special series, of which this volume is the fourth.
The first award was made on May 12, 1967, to Professor Robert Brunschvig
of the Sorbonne, Paris, by a committee under the chairmanship of Professor
G. E. von Grunebaum composed of Professors G.-C. Anawati, O.P., Franz
Rosenthal, Bertold Spuler, Andreas Tietze, and Giorgio Levi Delia Vida. Subse­
quent recipients were Professor Joseph Schacht of Columbia University and
Professor Francesco Gabrieli of the University of Rome.
The committee, under the chairmanship of Professor Speros Vryonis Jr.
and composed of Professor G.-C. Anawati, O.P., Robert Brunschvig, Franz
Rosenthal, Bertold Spuler, and Andreas Tietze, selected Professor Gustave
E. von Grunebaum as posthumous recipient of the fourth award.
Three volumes have been published to date: Logic in Classical Islamic
Culture (1970), Theology and Law in Islam (1971), and Arabic Poetry: Theory
and Development (1973).
ISLAM AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Giorgio Levi Delia Vida
1880-1967
ISLAM AND CULTURAL CHANGE
IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Edited by
SPEROS VRYONIS Jr.
1975
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