From Paul the Persian to al-Fārābī: The Evolution of the Reading Order of Aristotle’s Books on Natural Science in the Early Abbasid ContextMélanges de l’Université Saint-JosephSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6UUJVRH8/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.JawdathJabbourFrom Paul the Persian to al-Fārābī: The Evolution of the Reading Order of Aristotle’s Books on Natural Science in the Early Abbasid Contexthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6UUJVRH8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/6UUJVRH8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/6UUJVRH8Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph692021-2022123-182It is generally considered that al-Fārābī’s thought presents the first attempt in the Arabo-Islamic context to build a global reflection on the architecture of knowledge, in which the structure of philosophy itself occupies a central place, and which is grounded on epistemological criteria. This foundational role, however, has always been addressed without placing it back within the context of the Arabo-Islamic philosophers’ reflection on the architecture of knowledge in the early Abbasid era (9th – 10th centuries). This paper focuses on several of the classifications of Aristotle’s natural works accessible in Arabic at this period. Its purpose is to highlight the soundness and continuity of many of their features throughout the Late antique and Early Islamic intellectual contexts, as well as to study the variations introduced by these classifications within the architecture of theoretical natural knowledge. This study aims, at the same time, to relate these variations to philosophical problems that remained constant in the transmission of philosophy “from Alexandria to Baghdad,” the most essential one being the question of the nature of the soul and its relation to matter.
Jabbour, Jawdath. “From Paul the Persian to Al-Fārābī: The Evolution of the Reading Order of Aristotle’s Books on Natural Science in the Early Abbasid Context.” Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 69 (2022 2021): 123–82.
Jawdath Jabbour, From Paul the Persian to Al-Fārābī: The Evolution of the Reading Order of Aristotle’s Books on Natural Science in the Early Abbasid Context,Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 69 (2022 2021): 123–82.Arab ChristiansAristotleGreek philosophyGreek scienceIV-VII CENestoriansPaul the PersianVI CEVII-XVIII CE