{"id":1996,"date":"2018-03-12T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2018-03-12T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:25:08","slug":"romance-and-reason-islamic-transformation-of-the-classical-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/romance-and-reason-islamic-transformation-of-the-classical-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformation of the Classical Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2008\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2018\/03\/Iskandar-3.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\" wp-image-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2018\/03\/Iskandar-3-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iskandar Served Kay Khusraw\u2019s Magical Goblet (Photo by Ardon Bar-Hama)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Edward Rothstein\u2019s recent review, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/romance-and-reason-islamic-transformations-of-the-classical-past-review-making-alexander-great-again-1519169728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Make Alexander Great Again<\/em><\/a>, tells of collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (15 East 84th St., New York, NY 10028) and the National Library of Israel to present \u201cnearly 70 Persian, Arabic and Turkish manuscripts that outline the profound influence of Alexander and his culture on the Islamic world\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/isaw.nyu.edu\/exhibitions\/romance-reason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> to learn more about the display of illuminated Islamic manuscripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Rothstein\u2019s recent review, Make Alexander Great Again, tells of collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (15 East 84th St., New York, NY 10028) and the National Library of Israel to present \u201cnearly 70 Persian, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/romance-and-reason-islamic-transformation-of-the-classical-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}