List of known Graeco Arabists

The list of well-known Graeco-Arabists includes Arabists and Graecists who work scientifically in the field of Graeco-Arabica , i.e. the reception of Greek language and literature , primarily in the form of translations into Arabic either directly or via Syrian .

scientist	nationality	Place of work	Qualifications	Graeco-Arabic research focus	image
Peter Adamson (born 1972)	Americans	University of Munich King’s College London	philosophy	Greek and Arabic Philosophy, Aristotle's Theology ( The Arabic Plotinus )
Anna Ayşe Akasoy (* 1977)	German	Ruhr-University Bochum	Oriental studies	Arabic translation of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
Georges Anawati (1905-1994)	Egyptians	Institut dominicain d'études orientales , Cairo	Catholic theology Arabic studies	Reception of Neoplatonism in Arabic philosophy
Rüdiger Arnzen (* 20th century)	German	Thomas Institute , Cologne University of Bochum	Arabic Studies Philosophy Oriental Studies ( Persian Language and Literature )	Reception of Plato and Aristotle in Arabic philosophy Al-Nayrizi , Al-Qabisi , Averroes translation techniques as well as philosophical and scientific terminology Graeco-Arabic lexicography : A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (in collaboration with Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas)
Carmela Baffioni (* 1951)	Italian	University of Naples L'Orientale	Arabic studies	Reception of Aristotle ( De Interpretatione , Meteorologica ) and atomism in Arabic philosophy , especially in Averroes
Gotthelf Bergstrasse (1886–1933)	German	University of Munich University of Heidelberg University of Breslau University of Königsberg Humboldt University of Berlin University of Istanbul	philosophy Classical Philology Semitic Philology	Hunayn ibn Ishaq , Syrian and Arabic Hippocrates and Galen translations
Amos Bertolacci (* 20th century)	Italian	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Arabic studies	Reception of the metaphysics of Aristotle in Arabic philosophy , especially in Avicenna and Albertus Magnus
Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (* 1943)	German	University of Bochum	Arabic studies	Galen translation into Arabic, encyclopedia
Deborah Louise Black (* 1958)	Canadian	University of Toronto	philosophy	Reception of the rhetoric and poetics of Aristotle in the Arabic philosophy of the Middle Ages
Véronique Boudon-Millot (* 1962)	French	CNRS , Paris	Classical Philology	Arabic translations of Greek texts on ancient medicine , especially Galen
Rémi Brague (* 1947)	Frenchman	University of Munich University of Paris IV-Sorbonne Université de Bourgogne	Philosophy Classical Philology Hebrew Studies Arabic Studies	comparative history of ideas of ancient and medieval cultures
Charles Edwin Butterworth (* 1938)	Americans	University of Maryland	Philosophy Islamic Studies Arabic Studies Political Science	Translation and reception of the Organon , the rhetoric and the poetics of Aristotle by Averroes , the Nomoi of Plato by Al-Farabi
Salvatore Cusa (1822-1893)	Italian	University of Palermo	Arabic studies	Graeco-Arab diplomacy of the Middle Ages
Ismael M. Dahiyat (* 20th century)	Jordanians	State University of New York at Binghamton	Arabic studies	Avicenna's commentary on the poetics of Aristotle
Hans Daiber (* 1942)	German	University of Frankfurt am Main University of Amsterdam	Arabic studies	Aristotle Semitico-Latinus Golden Verses Iamblichos of Chalkis
Cristina D'Ancona Costa (* 1956)	Italian	University of Pisa University of Padua	History of philosophy	Reception of Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Arabic philosophy and their transmission into the Latin Middle Ages , Liber de causis , commentary by Thomas Aquinas on the Liber de causis , theology of Aristotle
Albert Dietrich (1912-2015)	German	University of Göttingen, German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul	Arabic studies	Arabic translations by Alexander of Aphrodisias and Pedanios Dioscurides
Hendrik Joan Drossaart Lulofs (1906–1998)	Dutch	University of Amsterdam	Classical Arabic Philology	Aristotle Semitico-Latinus
Gerhard Endress (* 1939)	German	University of Bochum	Arabic studies	Proklos Graeco-Arabic Lexicography : A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (with Dimitri Gutas)
Michel Fattal (* 1954)	Frenchman	Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II University	philosophy	Reception of Platonism and Neoplatonism in Islamic philosophy , especially in Al-Farabi
Silvia Fazzo (* 20th century)	Italian	University of Trento	Classical Philology philosophy	Reception of the metaphysics of Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias in Islamic philosophy
Francesco Gabrieli (1904-1996)	Italian	La Sapienza University, Naples University, L'Orientale University, Palermo	Arabic studies	Reception of the laws of Plato in Alfarabi
Emma Gannagé (* 1967)	American	Université Saint-Joseph , Beirut	philosophy	Edition of a fragment of a commentary by Alexander von Aphrodisias on Aristotle , De generatione et corruptione , reception of Greek political philosophy in Islamic, which has only survived from Jabir ibn Hayyān
Ivan Garofalo (* 1948)	Italian	University of Siena	Greek Studies	Indexing and text-critical evaluation of Arabic translations of Greek texts on medicine and biology; Galen , Erasistratos
Hans Ludwig Gottschalk (1904–1981)	German	University of Vienna Mingana Collection , Birmingham	Arabic Studies Islamic Studies	Reception of the ancient sciences by Islam
Sylvain Gouguenheim (* 1960)	Frenchman	École normal supérieure de Lyon	Medieval Studies	Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel : controversial denial of the fact that Greek medicine, science and philosophy were conveyed to the Western Middle Ages by Islamic intellectuals
Dimitri Gutas (* 1945)	Greek	Yale University	Greek and Arabic studies	Medicine , science and philosophy (especially in Baghdad ) Edition project by William W. Fortenbaugh and Robert W. Sharples on Theophrast Graeco-Arabic Lexicography : A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (with Gerhard Endress) Translations between Greek , Syrian , Arabic , Hebrew and Latin from Hellenism to the Renaissance
Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937)	Americans	Harvard University University of Wisconsin	Medieval Studies	Latin translations from Greek and Arabic at the Norman royal court in Palermo
Dag Nikolaus Hasse (* 1969)	German	University of Würzburg	Philosophy Middle Latin Philology, Arabic Studies	Reception of the Greek - Arabic philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages
Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941–2014)	German	Harvard University	Arabic Studies Islamic Studies	Arabic translation of Aristotle's Poetics
Victor Jernstedt (1854–1902)	Russian	Saint Petersburg University	Classical Byzantine Studies	Michael Andreopoulos ' translation of the stories of Sindbad
Salim Kemal (1948–1999)	Briton	University of Dundee Pennsylvania State University American University Beirut Wolfson College , Cambridge	philosophy	Poetics in al-Fārābī , Avicenna and Averroes (taking into account the reception of Aristotle's poetics )
Remke Kruk (* 1942)	Dutch woman	Leiden University	Arabic studies	Aristotle Semitico-Latinus
Paul Kunitzsch (1930-2020)	German	University of Munich	Classical Arabic Philology	Ancient astronomy and astrology , history of science, reception of antiquity in the Arab-Islamic culture
Anthony Lo Bello (born 1947)	Americans	Allegheny College , Meadville , Pennsylvania	mathematics	Edition of the commentary by al-Nayrizi on Euclid and the Latin translation by Gerhard von Cremona
Concetta Luna (* 1959)	Italian	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Classical Philology Middle Latin Philology	Arab reception of Neoplatonism
Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007)	Americans	Harvard University University of Chicago University of Baghdad	Arabic studies	Reception of Plato and Aristotle in al-Fārābī
Maria Mavroudi (* 1967) Μαρία Μαυρουδή	Greek	University of California, Berkeley Princeton University	Byzantine Philology	Byzantium and the Arabs , bilingualism in the Middle Ages, Byzantine and Islamic science
Oliver Overwien (* 1971)	German	Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum	Classical Philology	Diogenes of Sinope as well as Hippocrates and Galen in Arabic tradition
Francis Edward Peters (* 1927)	Americans	New York University	Classical Philology Islamic Studies	Reception of Aristotle in Arabic philosophy
Roshdi Rashed (* 1936)	Egyptians	University of Paris VII	History of science	Greek and Arabic mathematics , Apollonios von Perge
Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003)	German	Yale University University of Pennsylvania Hebrew Union College	Arabic studies	Reception of antiquity in Islam
George Saliba (* 1939)	Americans	Columbia University	Arabic studies	Reception of Greek in Arabic natural science, especially astronomy
Giuseppe Serra (* 1937)	Italian	University of Padua	Classical Philology	Reception of Greek in Arabic philosophy , Arabic reception of Aristotle's poetics
Gotthard Strohmaier (* 1934)	German	Free University of Berlin Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences	Classical Arabic Philology	Medicine , science and philosophy. Development and text-critical utilization of medieval Arabic translations of Greek texts. Reception of antiquity in Islam
Richard C. Taylor (* 1950)	Americans	Marquette University	Philosophy Medieval Studies	Translation and reception of Aristotle 's De anima by Averroes , reception of Greek in Arabic philosophy
Pierre Thillet (1918-2015)	Frenchman	University of Paris I	Classical Philology	Aristotle , Neoplatonism , Alexander von Aphrodisias , reception in Islamic philosophy
Jaroslav Tkáč (1871-1927)	Austrian	Gymnasiums in Vienna	Classical Philology	The Arabic translation of Aristotle's Poetics
Gerald J. Toomer (* 1934)	Briton	Brown University Corpus Christi College , Oxford	History of mathematics and science Classical Philology	Ancient Greek mathematics and astronomy, Arabic translation of Apollonios von Perge
Manfred Ullmann (* 1931)	German	University of Tübingen	Arabic studies	Graeco-Arabic Lexicography : Dictionary of the Greek-Arabic translations of the 9th century Medicine Spruchdichtung , Menander - Sentences
Cornelis HM Versteegh (* 1947)	Dutch	University of Nijmegen	Arabic studies	Ancient Greek and Arabic Linguistics
Richard Rudolf Walzer (1900–1975)	German and British	University of Hamburg St Catherine's College , Oxford Oriel College , Oxford University Rome	Philosophy Classical Philology Hebrew Studies	Tradition of Greek Thought in Arabic Philosophy , Plato Arabus
Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887–1974)	Americans	Harvard University	Philosophy Judaic Studies	Reception of Aristotle in Arabic and Jewish philosophy , especially in Chasdaj Crescas

Legend

Scientists : This column records the name, the dates of life and, if applicable, the Greek form of the name. Nationality : This column records the nationality, as far as can be determined in view of data protection and personal rights. In the case of Greeks living abroad in particular , dual citizenship can also be given without the public having to be aware of this. Place of work : For academics, this column usually only records the universities at which they have taught with the rank of professor, if necessary in biographical order (the current place at the top). For employees of research institutions, the institution is given, for all others (honorary professors, academic mid-level faculty, lecturers, teachers, etc.) the city in which they are or were active. Qualifications : This column records the academic qualifications of the researchers listed. Research focus : This column contains key words about the main areas of work and research achievements of the listed researchers exclusively in the area of ​​Graeco-Arabica. Work titles are in italics. Image : This column shows images of the named researchers in the form of photographs, paintings, woodcuts and the like.

See also

• List of well-known Arabists
• List of known Graecists
• List of well-known researchers on ancient philosophy
• List of well-known medical historians
• List of well-known diplomats
• List of well-known Middle Latin philologists

Web links

• Greek into Arabic. Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges. European Research Council Advanced Grant 249431 (joint homepage of the Universities of Pisa and Bochum and the ILC of the CNR , Pisa)