Dimitri Gutas

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Dimitri Gutas , Greek Δημήτρης Γούτας (* 1945 ) is an American Arabist and Graecist of Greek origin.

Gutas studied Classical Philology , the History of Religions , Arabic and Islamic Studies at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate. From 1985 to 1989 he was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Crete in Rethymno, since then he has been Professor of Arabic Studies and Arabic Reception of Greek Texts in the Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations at Yale University , USA .

Gutas Einstein has been a visiting fellow at Freie Universität Berlin since 2016 .

His main areas of work are classical Arabic and the intellectual tradition of the Middle Ages in Islamic culture, especially Avicenna , as well as Graeco-Arabica , i.e. the reception and transmission of Greek works on medicine , natural science and philosophy in the Arab-Islamic world (especially from the 8th to 10th century in Baghdad ). He is considered one of the leading experts in this special field and is involved in the edition project by William W. Fortenbaugh and Robert W. Sharples on the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrast and, together with Gerhard Endress, publisher of the Greek and Arabic Lexicon . Gutas is currently working on a book on translation services between Greek, Syrian, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin from Hellenism to the Renaissance.

Gutas is a member of the scientific advisory board of numerous journals, including the leading journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press), as well as co-editor and contributor to the revision of Ueberweg , a comprehensive history of philosophy that will now also include four volumes on Arabic philosophy.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation. A Study of the Graeco-Arabic Gnomologia (New Haven 1975). - Review by John Glucker , in: The Classical Review (New Series) 29, 1979, pp. 167-168, online
  • Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works. Brill, Leiden / Boston 1988 (= Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Text and Study. Volume 4), ISBN 90-04-08500-9 ; 2nd, revised and expanded edition with an inventory of Avicenna's Authentic Works. ibid 2014.
  • Greek Thought, Arabic Culture. The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasid Society (2nd – 4th / 8th – 10th centuries) (London and New York 1998) (translated into seven languages, but not yet into German), Google books [1]
  • Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition (Aldershot, Hampshire 2000)

Editions

  • Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence , 2 volumes edited by William W. Fortenbaugh , PM Huby, Robert W. Sharples , and D. Gutas (Leiden 1992)
  • Theophrastus, On First Principles (transmitted as his Metaphysics). Greek Text and Medieval Arabic Translation, edited and translated, with an Excursus on Graeco-Arabic Editorial Technique , Leiden 2009.
  • with Leonardo Tarán : Aristotle, Poetics. Editio Maior of the Greek Text With Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries (= Mnemosyne Supplement. Volume 338). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2012.

Dictionary

  • (with Gerhard Endress): A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex): Materials for a Dictionary of the Medieval Translations from Greek into Arabic . Suffer. Brill 1992- (Handbook of Oriental Studies, First Section: The Near and Middle East, Vol. 11)

items

  • Ibn Ṭufayl on Ibn Sīnā's Eastern Philosophy. In: Oriens. Volume 34, 1994, pp. 222-241.
  • The Study of Arabic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. An Essay on the Historiography of Arabic Philosophy. In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 29 (2002), pp. 5–25.
  • The Heritage of Avicenna: The Golden Age of Arabic Philosophy, 1000 - approx. 1350. In: J. Janssens, D. De Smet (eds.): Avicenna and His Heritage (Leuven 2002), pp. 81-97.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dimitri Gutas . In: Einstein Visiting Fellows. Einstein Foundation Berlin, accessed on May 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ See: Michael E. Marmura: Plotting the course of Avicenna's thought. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. Volume 111, 1991, pp. 333-342.
personal data
SURNAME Gutas, Dimitri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Arabist and Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945