Aristotelian Meteorology in Syriac
Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Books of Mineralogy and Meteorology
Biographical note
Hidemi Takahashi, Dr. phil. (2002), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, classical philologists, scholars of Islamic philosophy, Syriacists.
Reviews
The work is an important document in intellectual history in general and in the history of Syriac language and culture in particular. The author has made a great effort to revive Syriac as a scientific language, and create a new type of philosophical-scientific writing in Syriac by translating and transferring the contents of the best philosophical-scientific literature available in his line from Arabic into Syriac. Muhammad Khalifa Hasan Ahmad in Islamic Studies 45.4
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The Letter before the Spirit underlines the importance for scholars to have at their disposal reliable scientific text editions – book editions or digital editions – of Aristotle’s works in the Semitico-Latin, and the Graeco-Latin, translation and commentary traditions.
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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.
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This volume offers the first critical edition and English translation of the Book of Physics of Barhebraeus' (d. 1286) magnum opus, Butyrum Sapientiae. It also analyzes Barhebraeus' (use of his) sources, and the unique and personal way in which he rearranged them.
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The Commentary on the Categories by Abū l-Farağ ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib is an important representative of the Aristotelian tradition in Arabic culture.
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This volume contains a critical edition of Bar Hebraeus’ Book of Rhetoric in his Cream of Wisdom. The accompanying introduction, translation and commentary explore its relations with the Syriac Aristotle and the Arabic commentary of Ibn Sina.
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Critical edition of the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics including an introduction on the influence of this major Aristotelian work on Arabic literature, as well as an annotated English translation, both by the late Douglas M. Dunlop.
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This publication deals with the practical philosophy in Barhebraeus's enclyclopaedia of Aristotelian wisdom "Butyrum sapientiae". The three Syriac books on Ethics, Politics and Economy are unique and the only specimens of its kind, surviving in the Syriac language and literature.
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A Critical Edition (with introduction and English translation) of the Pseudo-Avicenna Liber Celi et Mundi, the twelfth century Latin translation of an Arabic paraphrase of Aristotle's De Caelo.
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This (first) publication of Petrus de Alvernia's commentary on the Peripatetic treatise 'De vegetabilibus et plantis' provides infor-mation on the reception of this work, that reached the Latin West through an Arabic translation made from the Syrian version of the Greek, in the Parisian Facultas ...
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Aristotle's Meteorology is - after the theoretical works Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione - the first practical application on the evidence of the elements and their properties. The texts of the Arabic and Latin versions, the last of which is printed here for the first time, are ...
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