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Alexandre Roberts deposited Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
This article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.
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Alexandre Roberts's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
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Salam Rassi's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
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Salam Rassi deposited From Greco-Syrian to Syro-Arabic Thought: The Philosophical Writings of Dionysius bar Ṣalībī and Jacob bar Šakkō on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Book chapter in Études syriaques 16 on late medieval encounters between Syriac and Arabo-Islamic philosophy. In particular, I examine the historical processes that led to the transformation of Syriac Christian philosophical praxis from its Greco-Arabic origins to its assimilation of post-Avciennan ideas from the 12th to 13th centuries. To this…[Read more]
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Salam Rassi's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
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Alexandre Roberts's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Al-Mansur and the Critical Ambassador in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its founder, the caliph al-Manṣūr. In one account, reported in several versions by al-Ṭabarī and al-Ḫaṭīb al-Bagdādī, a Byzantine ambassador arrives at al-Manṣūr’s court and criticizes the caliph’s new capital. The present paper suggests that the tale m…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Al-Mansur and the Critical Ambassador in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its founder, the caliph al-Manṣūr. In one account, reported in several versions by al-Ṭabarī and al-Ḫaṭīb al-Bagdādī, a Byzantine ambassador arrives at al-Manṣūr’s court and criticizes the caliph’s new capital. The present paper suggests that the tale m…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Al-Mansur and the Critical Ambassador in the group
Graeco-Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its founder, the caliph al-Manṣūr. In one account, reported in several versions by al-Ṭabarī and al-Ḫaṭīb al-Bagdādī, a Byzantine ambassador arrives at al-Manṣūr’s court and criticizes the caliph’s new capital. The present paper suggests that the tale m…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Al-Mansur and the Critical Ambassador in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its founder, the caliph al-Manṣūr. In one account, reported in several versions by al-Ṭabarī and al-Ḫaṭīb al-Bagdādī, a Byzantine ambassador arrives at al-Manṣūr’s court and criticizes the caliph’s new capital. The present paper suggests that the tale m…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Al-Mansur and the Critical Ambassador on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
The Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its founder, the caliph al-Manṣūr. In one account, reported in several versions by al-Ṭabarī and al-Ḫaṭīb al-Bagdādī, a Byzantine ambassador arrives at al-Manṣūr’s court and criticizes the caliph’s new capital. The present paper suggests that the tale m…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Alexandre Roberts deposited The Crossing Paths of Greek and Persian Knowledge in the 9th-century Arabic ‘Book of Degrees’ in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper examines a 9th-century Arabic text of genethlialogical astrology, arguing that while it presents itself as heir to a Greek science deriving from India, it is also a testament to the pervasive role played by Sasanian intellectual culture in the 8th- to 10th-century Greek-Arabic translation movement. After a description of the…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited The Crossing Paths of Greek and Persian Knowledge in the 9th-century Arabic ‘Book of Degrees’ in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper examines a 9th-century Arabic text of genethlialogical astrology, arguing that while it presents itself as heir to a Greek science deriving from India, it is also a testament to the pervasive role played by Sasanian intellectual culture in the 8th- to 10th-century Greek-Arabic translation movement. After a description of the…[Read more]
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