From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Hans Daiber (born 1942), PhD (1968), was Professor of Arabic and Islam at the Free University Amsterdam (1977-95), of oriental languages at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. (1995-2010) until his retirement. He published a.o. Aetius Arabus (Steiner 1980), Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy (3 vols., Brill 1999; 2007) and Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures. A Historical and Bibliographical Survey (Brill 2012).

Abbreviations

Rules of Transliteration



Introduction



Description of the Texts



Aligarh, India



Baghdad, Iraq



Beirut, Lebanon



Berlin, Germany



Birmingham, Great Britain



Bursa, Turkey



Cairo, Egypt



Cambridge, Great Britain



Cambridge (Mass.), USA



Damascus, Syria



Delhi, India



Dublin, Ireland



Escorial, Spain



Evora, Portugal



Florence, Italy



Gotha, Germany



Hyderabad, India



Istanbul, Turkey



Leiden, Netherlands



Lisbon, Portugal



London, Great Britain



Lucknow, India



Manisa, Turkey



Mosul, Iraq



Munich, Germany



Najaf, Iraq



New Haven, USA



Oxford, Great Britain



Paris, France



Patna (Bankipore), India



Princeton, USA



Qumm, Iran



Rampur, India



Taʿizz, Yemen



Tarim, Yemen



Tashkent, Uzbekistan



Tehran, Iran



Toledo, Spain



Tonk, India



Vatican City State



Vienna, Austria



Washington, USA



Manuscripts of Barhebraeus’ Works



Rare or Unpublished Books and Articles



The Arabic Inscription of the Madrasa al-Mustanṣiriyya, Baghdad (founded 631/1234)



Indices

Literature and its Abbreviations

Photos of Selected Manuscripts

The Power of the Word

 The Linguistic Form of Greek-Arabic Translations

 Unknown Views of Orientalists on Franz Taeschner, Die Psychologie Qazwīnīs (1912)



Indices “The Power of the Word”

Postscriptum