Agapius of Manbiǧ, Qusṭā ibn Lūqā and the Graeco-Roman Past: The Beginnings of Christian Arabic and Muslim HistoriographyQuaderni di Studi ArabiSyriaca.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/S5LLE9MC/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Robert G.HoylandAgapius of Manbiǧ, Qusṭā ibn Lūqā and the Graeco-Roman Past: The Beginnings of Christian Arabic and Muslim Historiographyhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/S5LLE9MChttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/S5LLE9MChttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/S5LLE9MCQuaderni di Studi Arabi1620217-41This article looks at the routes by which knowledge of the Greco-Roman past was transmitted from late antiquity by Christian communities living under Muslim rule. The process involved translation from Greek to Syriac and from Greek and Syriac to Arabic. Once in Arabic, the <i>lingua franca</i> of the Abbasid Middle East, this historical material could be used by Muslim scholars to work into their histories of the pre-Islamic Middle East. This article also shows that historical texts could easily cross interconfessional lines and that their transmission, although handled very differently to scientific texts, was still part of the broader transfer of late antique culture to the Islamic Empire that is commonly referred to as the Graeco-Arabic translation movement. Hoyland, Robert G. “Agapius of Manbiǧ, Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā and the Graeco-Roman Past: The Beginnings of Christian Arabic and Muslim Historiography.” Quaderni Di Studi Arabi 16 (2021): 7–41. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/2667016X-16010004. Robert G. Hoyland, Agapius of Manbiǧ, Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā and the Graeco-Roman Past: The Beginnings of Christian Arabic and Muslim Historiography, Quaderni Di Studi Arabi 16 (2021): 7–41, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/2667016X-16010004.Agapios of HierapolisArab ChristiansGreek literatureMelkitesMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEX CEhistoriography