2022/04/01 by Alexander Treiger · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Arabic #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Art #Biology #Byzantine Studies and History #Classics #Competition (biology) #Ecology #Historical and Linguistic Studies #History #Linguistics #Ninth #Perspective (graphical) #Philosophy #Physics #Sociology #Visual arts
paper · pdf · doi:10.21071/mijtk.v7i.13666
published in Mediterranea International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 7, 143-181 (University of Córdoba)
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The present study examines social history of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement from the perspective of the Christian communities that participated in it. Special attention is given to Melkite and Nestorian translators active in ʿAbbāsid Baghdad – from the late eighth-century Melkite translator al-Biṭrīq to the famous ninth-century Nestorian translator Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq – and to the complex interactions between Melkites and Nestorians, which involved both competition and scholarly collaboration.