Open AccessThe Medici’s Influence: Revival of Political and Financial Thought in Europe
Author(s) -
Sema Yılmaz Genç,
Hassan Syed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
belleten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.11
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 0041-4255
DOI - 10.37879/belleten.2021.29
Subject(s) - the renaissance , islam , ideology , period (music) , classics , politics , middle ages , history , arabic , persian , early modern period , ancient history , literature , art , political science , law , art history , philosophy , aesthetics , theology , archaeology , linguistics
The history of the European Renaissance has been written in many versions. The move from medieval to Renaissance period in world history shows clashes between empires and human nature. The contemporary scholars have many variants of history to choose from and form their own views about what actually transpired during the historical period. The most significant role of the Medici family was in the new era of European history that witnessed the art of administration on the Medici Bank in Florence/Italy. This paper portrays the point of view of the influence of Islamic Arab scholars as scribes in the re-introduction of Greek-Aristotelian philosophies to Renaissance Europe. This view is being increasingly challenged. The Islamic-Arab scholars such as Averroes and Avicenna were not mere scribes. Better translations of Arabic and Persian historical treasures reveal that the Islamic-Arab scholars during the golden age of Islam were globally accepted literary giants who made profound changes to the ideological shaping of Renaissance Europe.