The Syriac Contribution to Arab Civilization / / Muhammad Abd al-Hamid al-Hamad.
The aim of this book is to demonstrate the movement of Greek thought into Arabic via the Syriac language. Al-Hamad devotes the four sections of this book to profiling four different authors who either wrote in Syriac or whose works were transmitted into Arabic via Syriac translations: Porphyry, John...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Series: | Dar Mardin: Christian Arabic and Syriac Studies from the Middle East
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this book is to demonstrate the movement of Greek thought into Arabic via the Syriac language. Al-Hamad devotes the four sections of this book to profiling four different authors who either wrote in Syriac or whose works were transmitted into Arabic via Syriac translations: Porphyry, John Philoponos (‘the Grammarian’), Jacob of Edessa and Dionysios of Tellmahre. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781463217778 9783111024141 9783110663037 |
| DOI: | 10.31826/9781463217778 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Muhammad Abd al-Hamid al-Hamad. |