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the Transmission of Greek Ideas in Western Europe and the Role of Translations

The article aims at surveying the translation activities of Arab scholars and Latin translation of 12the century and their impact on European Renaissance. In the course of study, the researcher made efforts to divide the transmission into 2 stages; the one is from Greek to Arabic, and the other is from Arabic to Latin although this division can’t always be applied. In general, as knowledge of Greek declined in the west with the fall of the Roman Empire, so did knowledge of the Greek texts, many of which had remained without a Latin translation. In this paper, the researcher dealt with various aspects of Cultural transmission such as the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, Toledo school of translations in Toledo, Spain, Bayt al-Hikmah(the house of wisdom) in Baghdad, Eastern Arab World, the role and importance of Sicily in Italy in translation activities.