The Church Fathers in Arabic Translations

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71370-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 02, 435 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 792 g

Reihe: Receptio Patristica

This volume tells the story of the Arabic translations of the Church Fathers. By tracing the history of major translation centres, such as Palestine, Sinai, and Antioch, it describes how Middle Eastern Christians translated into Arabic, preserved, and engaged with their Patristic heritage. In addition to well-known authors, such as Gregory of Nazianzus, Ephrem the Syrian, and Dionysius the Areopagite, the volume presents a Patristic treatise written in Greek but preserved only in Arabic: the Noetic Paradise. Finally, by reconstructing a lost Arabic Dionysian paraphrase used by the Muslim theologian al-Ghazali, the volume explores Patristic influences on Islamic thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Treiger, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Part1 Christian Graeco-Arabica

1 The Fathers in Arabic

1 A Brief History of the Arabic Translations of the Church Fathers

2 Arabic Christian and Islamic Reception(s) of the Arabic Translations of the Church Fathers

3 Two Issues of Interest

4 Avenues for Future Research

2 Greek Christian Literature in Arabic Translations

1 Biblical Translations

2 Hagiography

3 Patristic and Byzantine Literature

4 Liturgy and Hymnography

3 Christian Graeco-Arabica: A History of Arabic Patristic Translations

1 Christian Graeco-Arabica: An Overview

2 Palestinian Translations

3 Antiochene Translations

4 Guidelines for Philological Analysis

5 Agenda for Future Research

Part2 Translations in Palestine and Sinai

4 The Earliest Dated Christian Arabic Translation: Ammonius’ Report on the Martyrdom of the Monks of Sinai and Raithu

1 The Arabic version of Ammonius’ Report in Relation to the Syriac Version

2 Conclusions

5 Syro-Arabic Translations in Palestine: John of Apamea’s Letter on Stillness

1 MS Sinai ar. 549: An Important Monastic Anthology

2 John of Apamea’s Letter on Stillness in Arabic

Part3 Translations in Byzantine Antioch

6 The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Translation Movement in Antioch

1 The Syriac Translation of the Life of St. Symeon the Stylite the Younger

2 Antiochene Translations after the Byzantine re-Conquest: The Disciples of the Patriarch Christopher

3 Yu?anna the Catholicos

7 An Eleventh-Century Arabic Manuscript of Ephrem’s Homilies

1 MS Sinai ar. 312 and Membra Disiecta: Description, Date, and Copyist

2 Quire Analysis

3 Additional Observations

4 Final Remarks

8 Greek into Arabic in Byzantine Antioch: ?Abdallah ibn al-Fa?l’s Book of the Garden

1 ?Abdallah ibn al-Fa?l al-An?aki as a Translator

2 ?Abdallah ibn al-Fa?l’s Book of the Garden (Kitab al-Raw?a)

3 Edition and Translation of Kitab al-Raw?a, Chapter56

Part4 Dionysius in Damascus

9 New Evidence on the Arabic Translations of Dionysius the Areopagite

1 Notes on the State of the Art

2 New Evidence

3 Authorship, Time, Milieu: Analysis of the Colophons of MS Sinai ar. 268

4 An Inventory of the Arabic Versions of Dionysius

10 The Arabic Translation of Mystical Theology, Chapter1

1 Technical Terminology

2 Translation Technique

3 Comparison with the Syriac Versions

4 Cases of Interpretation and Misinterpretation

5 Edition and Translation of MT, chapter1

Part5 Lost in Greek, Found in Arabic

11 The Noetic Paradise

1 Translation

Part6 Patristic Themes in Islamic Thought

12 From Dionysius to al-Gazali: Patristic Influences on Arabic Neoplatonism

1 The Ninth-Century Arabic Dionysian Paraphrase

2 The Gud-Qudra Identification

3 The Triad ‘Goodness-Power-Knowledge/Wisdom’

4 Al-Gazali’s Debt to ‘Interpositional Neoplatonism’

5 Conclusion and Avenues for Future Research

Bibliography

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Names and Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Treiger, Ph.D. (2008, Yale University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is editor of the series “Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies” (Brill). He has published extensively on translations from Greek into Arabic, Arabic Christianity, and Islamic philosophy and theology.