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The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac

Author: John W. Watt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0429817487

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.

The Earliest Syriac Translation of Aristotle's Categories

Author: Daniel King

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-11-12

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 9004191011

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The present volume makes available for the first time the earliest translation of Aristotle into a Semitic language. It will open the way to a fuller understanding of the transformation of Greek logic in Syriac and Arabic.

Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity

Author: Dr John W Watt

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-28

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1409482588

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This book brings together sixteen studies by internationally renowned scholars on the origins and early development of the Latin and Syriac biblical and philosophical commentary traditions. It casts light on the work of the founder of philosophical biblical commentary, Origen of Alexandria, and traces the developments of fourth- and fifth-century Latin commentary techniques in writers such as Marius Victorinus, Jerome and Boethius. The focus then moves east, to the beginnings of Syriac philosophical commentary and its relationship to theology in the works of Sergius of Reshaina, Probus and Paul the Persian, and the influence of this continuing tradition in the East up to the Arabic writings of al-Farabi. There are also chapters on the practice of teaching Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in fifth-century Alexandria, on contemporaneous developments among Byzantine thinkers, and on the connections in Latin and Syriac traditions between translation (from Greek) and commentary. With its enormous breadth and the groundbreaking originality of its contributions, this volume is an indispensable resource not only for specialists, but also for all students and scholars interested in late-antique intellectual history, especially the practice of teaching and studying philosophy, the philosophical exegesis of the Bible, and the role of commentary in the post-Hellenistic world as far as the classical renaissance in Islam.

Aristotle's Rhetoric in the East

Author: Uwe Vagelpohl

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-08-31

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9047433424

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Analyzing the Arabic translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric and situating it in its historical and intellectual context, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the early Greek-Arabic translation movement and its impact in Islamic culture and beyond.

Glosses and Commentaries on Aristotelian Logical Texts

Author: Charles S. F. Burnett

Publisher: Warburg Institute

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Considers the literary genres in which logical texts were written in the post-classical period. Articles describe the kinds of texts that were written and the implications for educational practices, as well as the continuities and developments between one language culture and another."

A Syriac Encyclopaedia of Aristotelian Philosophy

Author: Peter Joosse

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9047414004

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This volume deals with the part on practical philosophy in Barhebraeus's "Butyrum sapientiae" or " Cream of Wisdom". The practical philosophy in this large encyclopaedia of Aristotelean thinking in this Syriac language consists of three books: Ethics, Economy and Politics. The books of Ethics and Politics have been edited, translated and commented upon for the very first time in this publication. These books are unique and probably the only specimens of its kind, surviving in the Syriac language and literature. They were written at the end of Barhebraeus's life (1285/86) during a period in which the Syriac language had been rapidly losing ground to Arabic and was to almost disappear as a living language not long after the author's death.

Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac

Author: John Watt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9047415817

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This volume contains the Syriac text, edited for the first time, of the commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric by Bar Hebraeus (died 1286) in his Cream of Wisdom. The text is accompanied by an English translation, and the volume also includes an introduction, commentary, and three glossaries (Syriac, Greek and Arabic). Bar Hebraeus’ commentary is based on the lost Syriac version of Aristotle’s treatise, but the author also drew heavily on the commentary of Ibn Sina (Avicenna). The text therefore provides a unique insight into the nature of that lost version, and also exemplifies the way Bar Hebraeus blended the Aristotle of the Graeco-Syriac translation literature with the more recent philosophy of Ibn Sina.

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Author: Ahmed Alwishah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1316395529

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This volume of essays by scholars in ancient Greek, medieval, and Arabic philosophy examines the full range of Aristotle's influence upon the Arabic tradition. It explores central themes from Aristotle's corpus, including logic, rhetoric and poetics, physics and meteorology, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and politics, and examines how these themes are investigated and developed by Arabic philosophers including al-Kindî, al-Fârâbî, Avicenna, al-Ghazâlî, Ibn Bâjja and Averroes. The volume also includes essays which explicitly focus upon the historical reception of Aristotle, from the time of the Greek and Syriac transmission of his texts into the Islamic world to the period of their integration and assimilation into Arabic philosophy. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to all those who are interested in the themes, development and context of Aristotle's enduring legacy within the Arabic tradition.

Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle's >Categories

Author: Yury Arzhanov

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-07

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 3111444538

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Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle's logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5th century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose lectures formed the basis for Sergius' main philosophical work, his extensive Commentary on the Categories. In this treatise, Sergius adapted for his Christian audience the Alexandrian educational model and exegesis of Aristotle logical writings and in this way influenced subsequent centuries of Aristotelian studies in Syriac. The commentary contains an extensive introductory part which deals with the traditional set of preliminaries (prolegomena), e.g., the general division of sciences, the scope of Aristotle's logic in general and of his treatise Categories in particular, etc. Moreover, it includes excurses in natural philosophy and contains extensive quotations from Aristotle's Physics. Thus, Sergius' treatise not only introduced the tradition of exegesis of Aristotle to the Syriac world, but provided Syriac readers with a general introduction to philosophy and logic and thus paved the way for the transmission of Greek sciences and philosophy from Alexandria to Baghdad.

Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, from Antiquity to the Present / Commenter la Rhétorique d’Aristote, de l’Antiquité à la période contemporaine

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9004376240

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The present volume brings together thirteen contributions devoted to the history, methods, and practices of the commentaries that have been written on Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric from the East to the West, from Greco-Roman antiquity to Heidegger, and studies them in their proper context. Le présent volume rassemble treize contributions dédiées à l’histoire, à la méthode et à la pratique des commentaires à la Rhétorique d’Aristote tels qu’ils ont été composés, en Orient et en Occident, depuis l’Antiquité gréco-romaine jusqu’à Heidegger, en les réinscrivant dans leur contexte propre.