Reason and revelation in Byzantine Antioch : the Christian translation program of Abdallah ibn-al-Fadl / Alexandre M. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Alexandre M., 1986- author.

Series:

Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 3.

Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anṭākī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, -approximately 1052--Influence.

Christianity and other religions.

Christian philosophy--Translating into Arabic--History--11th century.

Philosophy, Ancient--Translating into Arabic--History--11th century.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Philosophy, Ancient.

History.

Christian philosophy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 357 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book investigates the medieval legacy of ancient science and philosophy in the Eastern Roman ('Byzantine') Empire and the Islamic World, and how Abrahamic religions shaped and were shaped by scholars' reception and adaptation of ancient educational traditions. It carries out this investigation through the lens of an eleventh-century Christian theologian and prodigious translator from Greek into Arabic, ʻAbdallāh ibn-al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī. Living in Antioch-on-the-Orontes in Northern Syria, under Byzantine rule from 969 until 1084, Ibn-al-Faḍl was poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his city and the Arabophone cultural universe of Syria-Palestine, Fatimid Egypt, Mirdasid Aleppo, and Abbasid-Buyid Iraq. A close look at Ibn-al-Faḍl's literary output, and especially his ambitious Greek-Arabic, Christian translation program, as preserved in medieval and early-modern manuscripts, demonstrates his engagement with ancient Greek and contemporary Byzantine and Arabic philosophy, science, and literary culture. This opens a window onto a shared scholarly culture of robust intellectual curiosity in the service of tradition that had a lasting role in Eurasian intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book investigates the medieval legacy of ancient science and philosophy in the Eastern Roman ('Byzantine') Empire and the Islamic World, and how Abrahamic religions shaped and were shaped by scholars' reception and adaptation of ancient educational traditions. It carries out this investigation through the lens of an eleventh-century Christian theologian and prodigious translator from Greek into Arabic, �Abdall�ah ibn-al-Fa�dl al-An�t�ak�i. Living in Antioch-on-the-Orontes in Northern Syria, under Byzantine rule from 969 until 1084, Ibn-al-Fa�dl was poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his city and the Arabophone cultural universe of Syria-Palestine, Fatimid Egypt, Mirdasid Aleppo, and Abbasid-Buyid Iraq. A close look at Ibn-al-Fa�dl's literary output, and especially his ambitious Greek-Arabic, Christian translation program, as preserved in medieval and early-modern manuscripts, demonstrates his engagement with ancient Greek and contemporary Byzantine and Arabic philosophy, science, and literary culture. This opens a window onto a shared scholarly culture of robust intellectual curiosity in the service of tradition that had a lasting role in Eurasian intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A scholar and his city

A translation program

A Byzantine ecclesiastical curriculum

Purpose in the prefaces

Education in the margins

Logic

Physics

Cosmology

Astronomy

A shared scholarly culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780520343498

0520343492

OCLC:

1119755015

Publisher Number:

99984757277