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The two centuries following the rise of the Abbasid caliphate in 750 witnessed a wave of translations from Greek into Syriac and Arabic. The translation and reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric is a prime example for the resulting transformation of antique learning in the Islamic world and beyond. On the basis of a close textual analysis of the Rhetoric, this study develops elements of a comparative “translation grammar” of Greek-Arabic translations. Contextualizing the analysis with an account of the textual history and the Syriac and Arabic philosophical tradition drawing on theRhetoric, it throws new light on the inner workings of the “translation movement” and its impact on Islamic culture.
Price: $179.00
Pages: 347
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
31 August 2008
ISBN: 9789004166813
Format: Hardcover
"Vagelpohl has given us an excellent text that contributes to our understanding of the translation movement..." Sajjad H. Rizvi in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 27.2
Uwe Vagelpohl, Ph.D. (2003) in Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University, is a postdoctoral researcher at Hampshire College. His research centers on the reception of antique learning in the medieval Islamic world.