De Graf à Griffith: l’œuvre classique des Arabes chrétiens

De Graf à Griffith: l’œuvre classique des Arabes chrétiensMélanges de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientalesSyriaca.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/ZGLHDDPT/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.EmilioPlattiDe Graf à Griffith: l’œuvre classique des Arabes chrétienshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ZGLHDDPThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ZGLHDDPThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ZGLHDDPTMélanges de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales352020301-322Since my arrival in Cairo in September 1972, I have been in touch with Jesuit Father Samir Khalil (b. 1938), who was a major scholar in Arab Christian studies. At that time, these studies were a sub-field in research on Middle Eastern Christians, especially those who spoke Coptic, Syriac, or Ethiopian. However, I progressively came to realize that as speakers of Arabic, these “Arab Christians” had a special status. In the process of their Arabicization, a process that took centuries, not only did they become part of the great Muslim-dominated Arab civilization, but they themselves participated in its construction. This development ended with Ibn Zurʿa (d. 398/1008), disciple of Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī (d. 363/974), who was the head of the School of Baghdad after the death of al-Fārābī (d. 339/950), and who had as his master the Christian scholar Abū Bišr Mattā (d. 328/940). This article traces the evolution of Arab Christian studies from Graf to Griffith over the last fifty years, and outlines the academic need to integrate these “Arab Christians” into the broader study of the Arab civilization. Platti, Emilio. “De Graf à Griffith: L’œuvre Classique Des Arabes Chrétiens.” Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’études Orientales 35 (2020): 301–22. Emilio Platti, De Graf à Griffith: L’œuvre Classique Des Arabes Chrétiens, Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’études Orientales 35 (2020): 301–22.