Cover -- Series Page -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 From Alexandria to Baghdad: Max Meyerhof revisited -- 2 From Sergius to Mattā: Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in Syriac tradition -- 3 The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and Baghdad --...

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1. Verfasser:	Watt, John W. 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London and New York Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:	Variorum collected studies series 1074
Schlagworte:	Barhebraeus > 1226-1286 Ḥunain Ibn-Isḥāq > 809-873 Themistius > 317-388 Aristoteles > v384-v322
Zusammenfassung:	Cover -- Series Page -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 From Alexandria to Baghdad: Max Meyerhof revisited -- 2 From Sergius to Mattā: Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in Syriac tradition -- 3 The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and Baghdad -- 4 Sergius of Reshaina on the prolegomena to Aristotle's logic: the commentary on the Categories, chapter two -- 5 The prolegomena to the Aristotelian philosophy of George, bishop of the Arabs -- 6 Why did Ḥunayn, the master translator into Arabic, make translations into Syriac? On the purpose of the Syriac translations of Ḥunayn and his circle -- 7 The Syriac translations of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and their precursors -- 8 Greek thought and Syriac controversies -- 9 Julian's Letter to Themistius - and Themistius' response? -- 10 Themistius and Julian: their association in Syriac and Arabic tradition -- 11 Literary and philosophical rhetoric in Syriac -- 12 Greek philosophy and Syriac culture in Abbasid Iraq -- 13 Graeco-Syriac tradition and Arabic philosophy in Bar Hebraeus -- 14 Aristotle's Rhetoric and political thought in the Christian Orient and in al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes -- Index
Beschreibung:	ix, 293 Seiten
ISBN:	9781138334663