Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch
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Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch

The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch

The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl

About this book

What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapted and reinvigorated this ancient philosophical heritage? Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch tackles these questions by examining the work of the eleventh-century Christian theologian Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, who undertook an ambitious program of translating Greek texts, ancient and contemporary, into Arabic. Poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his home city of Antioch and the Arabic-speaking cultural universe of Syria-Palestine, Egypt, Aleppo, and Iraq, Ibn al-Fadl engaged intensely with both Greek and Arabic philosophy, science, and literary culture. Challenging the common narrative that treats Christian and Muslim scholars in almost total isolation from each other in the Middle Ages, Alexandre M. Roberts reveals a shared culture of robust intellectual curiosity in the service of tradition that has had a lasting role in Eurasian intellectual history.

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Information

Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780520343498
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520974821

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. REASON AND REVELATION IN BYZANTINE ANTIOCH
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. NOTE ON CONVENTIONS
  9. Introduction
  10. PART I. TRANSLATION
  11. PART II. PHILOSOPHY
  12. Bibliography
  13. General Index
  14. Arabic Index
  15. Greek Index
  16. Index of Manuscripts

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