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3. Method, Phases, and Significance of the Translations
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In Chapter 3, The Rebirth of Philosophy and the Translations into Arabic

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The translators from Greek and Syriac into Arabic (see the list given by Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa [*5: I 203–205]), with the exception of the pagan scholars from Harran, belonged to the Christian churches dominant in the Fertile Crescent: Melkites (the Biṭrīq father and son, Qusṭā b. Lūqā), Jacobites (ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Nāʿima al-Ḥimṣī, Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī), and Nestorians (the family of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, Abū Bišr Mattā b. Yūnus). Ethnically they were …

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Dimitri Gutas, “3. Method, Phases, and Significance of the Translations”, in: Philosophy in the Islamic World Online: 8th-10th Centuries. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2543-2729_PIWO_COM_001303>
First published online: 2017



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