The Project
Pictures:
1) pseudo-Aristotle,
Theology, MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Hamidiye 717 bis, ff. 2 v - 3 r
2)
What Alexander of Aphrodisias extracted from Aristotle's book called "Theology", MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Carullah 1279, ff. 60 v - 61 r
3)
Meeting of scholars. Detail: scribe.
Rasā’il Iḫwān al-Ṣafā’, MS Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Esad Efendi 3638, f. 4 r
“The First Chapter of the book of Aristotle the Philosopher, called in Greek Theologia, being the discourse on the Divine Sovereignty; the interpretation of Porphyry of Tyre, translated into Arabic by ʽAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Nāʽima of Emesa and corrected for Aḥmad ibn al-Muʽtaṣim billāh by Abū Yūsuf Yaʽqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī” (trans. Lewis).
So begins one of the most baffling texts of Arabic philosophical literature.
The
ERC project Ideas, Advanced Grant 249431 supported by the
European Research Council will produce the critical edition of the pseudo-Theology of Aristotle. The edition will be accompanied by translation, running commentary, and bilingual indexes (Greek-Arabic and Arabic-Greek).
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