The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-33466-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical writers of the period before providing detailed studies of two Syriac prolegomena to Aristotle’s Categories and examining the works of Hunayn, the most famous Arabic translator of the 9th century. Watt also examines the relationships between philosophy, rhetoric and political thought in the period, and explores the connection between earlier Syriac tradition and later Arabic philosophy in the thought of the 13th century Syriac polymath Bar Hebraeus.

Collected together for the first time, these articles present an engaging and thorough history of Aristotelian philosophy during this period in the Near East, in Syriac and Arabic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watt, John W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Alexandria to Baghdad. Max Meyerhof Revisited

Chapter 2. From Sergius to Matta. Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in Syriac Tradition

Chapter 3. The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and Baghdad

Chapter 4. Sergius of Reshaina on the Prolegomena to Aristotle’s Logic. The Commentary on the Categories, Chapter Two

Chapter 5. The Prolegomena to Aristotelian Philosophy of George, Bishop of the Arabs

Chapter 6. Why Did Hunayn, the Master Translator into Arabic, Make Translations into Syriac? On the Purpose of the Syriac Translations of Hunayn and his Circle

Chapter 7. The Syriac Translations of Hunayn ibn Ishaq and their Precursors

Chapter 8. Greek Thought and Syriac Controversies

Chapter 9. Julian’s Letter to Themistius - and Themistius’ Response?

Chapter 10. Themistius and Julian. Their Association in Syriac and Arabic Tradition

Chapter 11. Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in Syriac

Chapter 12. Greek Philosophy and Syriac Culture in Abbasid Iraq

Chapter 13. Graeco-Syriac Tradition and Arabic Philosophy in Bar Hebraeus

Chapter 14. Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Political Thought in the Christian Orient and in al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John W. Watt is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. His research has focused on Syriac rhetoric and philosophy, and in these areas he has edited major treatises of Antony of Tagrit (Leuven: Peeters, 1986) and Bar Hebraeus (Leiden: Brill, 2005). Several of his articles are collected in his Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).