Knowledge Commons | Graeco-Arabic Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/graeco-arabic-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Graeco-Arabic Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4ce5209d349650355446bc224459a755 Nick Posegay deposited An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah in the group Graeco-Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888912/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the psalter's Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c67c70959807b06906c37d46e0f22f8 Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group Graeco-Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764075/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:25:25 -0500 In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0c883bea020a809af0e9bc538197f11 Alexandre Roberts deposited A Re-translation of Basil’s Hexaemeral Homilies by ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl of Antioch in the group Graeco-Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717157/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:23:44 -0500 This chapter examines the eleventh-century Arabic translation of Basil of Caesarea’s Homilies on the Hexaemeron by the translator and theologian ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl of Antioch. It begins by surveying other late antique and medieval translations of Basil’s Hexaemeron, then lists all manuscripts known to me which are reported to contain an Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 32caa92d1e6ee8686a49e0a635c965e9 Alexandre Roberts deposited Al-Mansur and the Critical Ambassador in the group Graeco-Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624047/ Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:25:29 -0500 The Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its founder, the caliph al-Manṣūr. In one account, reported in several versions by al-Ṭabarī and al-Ḫaṭīb al-Bagdādī, a Byzantine ambassador arrives at al-Manṣūr's court and criticizes the caliph's new capital. The present paper suggests that the tale m…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce1061a2b074db7ecfc4b5a086dc6527 Valerie Hannon Smitherman posted an update in the group Graeco-Arabic Studies: A question for the group (apologies if I am posting this in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610600/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:26:41 -0400 A question for the group (apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place):

Has anyone here looked at lexical borrowings from Greek into Arabic? Word lists/bibliography appreciated.

Cheers,
Valerie

]]> 4 6af5baa62d26797a8618e90a8e048d66 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group Graeco-Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609808/ Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:12:25 -0400 The Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd's failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle's tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]

]]> 0 5beaa1b9d797d198699e3adb336ee142 Alexandre Roberts created the group Graeco-Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602809/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 09:58:06 -0500 0