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).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. From Alexandria to Baghdad. Max Meyerhof RevisitedChapter 2. From Sergius to Mattā. Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in Syriac TraditionChapter 3. The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and BaghdadChapter 4. Sergius of Reshaina on the Prolegomena to Aristotle’s Logic. The Commentary on the Categories, Chapter TwoChapter 5. The Prolegomena to Aristotelian Philosophy of George, Bishop of the ArabsChapter 6. Why Did Ḥunayn, the Master Translator into Arabic, Make Translations into Syriac? On the Purpose of the Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn and his CircleChapter 7. The Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and their PrecursorsChapter 8. Greek Thought and Syriac ControversiesChapter 9. Julian’s Letter to Themistius - and Themistius’ Response?Chapter 10. Themistius and Julian. Their Association in Syriac and Arabic TraditionChapter 11. Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in SyriacChapter 12. Greek Philosophy and Syriac Culture in Abbasid IraqChapter 13. Graeco-Syriac Tradition and Arabic Philosophy in Bar HebraeusChapter 14. Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Political Thought in the Christian Orient and in al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and AverroesIndex

‘This extraordinary collection of fourteen articles is a very important, useful and engaging contribution to the intellectual history of Aristotelian philosophy during this specific period in the Near East, in Syriac and Arabic. It is also a very demanding book that is clearly written for specialists in the field but that would doubtless be of interest to scholars working on all aspects of intellectual history ... Watt is clearly a master in his field of research, and his erudition glimmers through on every page of this book. The author and his publisher should be commended for putting together this excellent and inspiring Variorum collection’ - International Journal of the Classical Tradition