Graeco-Arabic Studies and the Arabic Plato

This brief paper was my contribution to the conference "Graeco-Arabica: Present State and Future Prospects of an Emerging Field,” held at Yale University, April 27, 2014 It asks not "What must Graeco-Arabic Studies accomplish?" but rather "What can a researcher do with Greek and Arabic together?" imagining a broad and inclusive Classical Near Eastern Studies integrating several fields of inquiry usually construed as separate.

T. Kirby, R. Acar, and B. Baş (eds.), Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology, 2013

I provide the first study of an extended Arabic quotation from Plato's Phaedo preserved in a work of medical ethics by the ninth-century physician al-Ruhāwī. This quotation, I argue, is valuable both for its antiquity (its Vorlage likely predated all extant non-papyri witnesses to the Phaedo) and for the text that it transmits. Through an analysis of seven readings transmitted in the quotation, I conclude that the Arabic version is of significant textual value. A valuable new witness to the late antique, Neoplatonic tradition of Plato, it presents a plausible and unique set of variants and confirms that the tradition had been extensively contaminated even before the production of the earliest extant codices.

Pisa University Press, 2023

Studia graeco-arabica features critical articles and reviews on the transmission of philosophical and scientific texts from and into various languages – Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Latin – from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (ISSN Online 2239-012X). Studia graeco-arabica follows a double-blind peer review process. Online: Studia graeco-arabica 12 (2022). L’influence du néoplatonisme sur les trois monothéismes au Moyen Âge (Guest Editors: D. De Smet and G. Roux) ISSN 2281-2687 / ISSN 2239-012X (Online) ISBN 978-88-3339-614-9 / ISBN 978-88-3339-615-6 (Online) Available in print. Please contact: press@unipi.it

Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, 2017

Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science

The title of Aileen Das’ first monograph, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus, may mislead readers into thinking that she is solely interested in contributing to the growing literature on reception studies of this important Platonic dialogue. As valuable as Das’ contributions to that literature are, in actual fact Das weaves through Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew texts and manuscripts to investigate the relationship between medicine and philosophy in Late Antique Roman and Islamic societies before 1200. Reviewed by: Nahyan Fancy, Published Online (2022-07-31)Copyright © 2022 by Nahyan FancyArticle PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/39102/29788 Corresponding Author: Nahyan Fancy,DePauw UniversityE-Mail: nahyanfancy@depauw.edu

Studia Graeco-Arabica, 2014

Studia graeco-arabica 4 / 2014, pp. 335-380, 2014

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