A Digital Corpus for Greco-Arabic Studies
Between the 8th and 10th centuries AD, hundreds of Greek
philosophical and scientific works were translated into Arabic. These
translations exerted immense influence on the development of philosophy
and science in the Islamic world and, through a later process of
translation and transmission, in the Latin West as well. We propose to
establish a new foundation for the study of this crucial period of
Classical influence on the Islamic world by creating a large-scale
corpus of digital texts and new tools to study them. We also aim to
enhance scholarly communication by forging new connections between
classicists and Arabists from the Middle East and the United States.
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications Program.
Mark Schiefsky, Professor of the Classics, Harvard University and
Gregory Crane, Professor of Classics, Tufts University, Principal
Investigators.