Dimitrie Cantemir, salvation of the sage and ruin of the sinful world / / by Ioana Feodorov ; with a contribution on the Arabic edition ; and English translation of Yulia Petrova ; with an introduction by Virgil Cândea.

• Superior document: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Feodorov, Ioana,
• TeilnehmendeR: Yulia Petrova ; with an introduction by Virgil Candea.,; Cândea, Virgil,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : BRILL,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (514 pages) :; illustrations (some color).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the first edition of the Arabic version of Dimitrie Cantemir’s The Divan or the Sage’s Dispute with the World (Ṣalāḥ al-ḥakīm wa-fasād al-ʿālam al-ḏamīm) (Iaşi, 1698), his first printed book, the earliest ethical treatise in Romanian literature and a testimony to his wide knowledge, reading, and proficiency in foreign languages. Completed in 1705 by Athanasius III Dabbās, Patriarch of the Antiochian Church (1684-1694, 1720-1724), the Arabic text is accompanied by the first translation into a modern language, English. Book III contains Cantemir’s version of the Latin work Stimuli virtutum, fraena peccatorum (Amsterdam, 1682) by the Unitarian Andzrej Wiszowaty (Andreas Wissovatius) of Raków (Poland), a chief representative of the Polish Brethren. Thus, in the space of twenty-three years Central-European Protestant ideas reached the Arab Christians of Ottoman Syria, by way of Greek and Arabic.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Ioana Feodorov -- Introduction / Ioana Feodorov -- Editor’s Note / Ioana Feodorov -- General Survey of the Manuscripts / Ioana Feodorov -- Arabic Edition and English Translation / Ioana Feodorov -- Appendix / Ioana Feodorov -- Sources (Editor’s Note, Edition and Translation) / Ioana Feodorov -- Indexes / Ioana Feodorov -- Figures / Ioana Feodorov.