The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac

John W. Watt is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. His research has focused on Syriac rhetoric and philosophy, and in these areas he has edited major treatises of Antony of Tagrit (Leuven: Peeters, 1986) and Bar Hebraeus (Leiden: Brill, 2005). Several of his articles are collected in his Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).

Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1. From Alexandria to Baghdad. Max Meyerhof Revisited



Chapter 2. From Sergius to Mattā. Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in Syriac Tradition



Chapter 3. The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and Baghdad



Chapter 4. Sergius of Reshaina on the Prolegomena to Aristotle’s Logic. The Commentary on the Categories, Chapter Two



Chapter 5. The Prolegomena to Aristotelian Philosophy of George, Bishop of the Arabs



Chapter 6. Why Did Ḥunayn, the Master Translator into Arabic, Make Translations into Syriac? On the Purpose of the Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn and his Circle



Chapter 7. The Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and their Precursors



Chapter 8. Greek Thought and Syriac Controversies



Chapter 9. Julian’s Letter to Themistius - and Themistius’ Response?



Chapter 10. Themistius and Julian. Their Association in Syriac and Arabic Tradition



Chapter 11. Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in Syriac



Chapter 12. Greek Philosophy and Syriac Culture in Abbasid Iraq



Chapter 13. Graeco-Syriac Tradition and Arabic Philosophy in Bar Hebraeus



Chapter 14. Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Political Thought in the Christian Orient and in al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes



Index