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.
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- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- De auctu (Quaestio I 5) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1981 )
- De colore ( ed. Helmut Gätje,1967 )
- De intellectu et intellecto (Περὶ νοῦ) (Arabic) ( ed. James Finnegan,1956 )
- De libero arbitrio (D 25) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1976 )
- De Providentia (versio A) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1976 )
- De Providentia (versio B) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1971 )
- De sensu (Quaestio III 3) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1978 )
- De universalibus (Quaestio I 11a) (versio D 17) (Arabic) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1979 )
- De universalibus (Quaestio I 11a) (versio D 3) (Arabic) ( ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland,1979 )
- De visu (Arabic) ( ed. Helmut Gätje,1971 )
- Quaestiones (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1971 )
- Apollonius of Perga
- Aristotle
- Analytica posteriora (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1949 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Analytica priora (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1948 )
- Categoriae (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1948 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Categoriae (Arabic) ( ed. Julius Theodor Zenker,1846 )
- Categoriae (Arabic) ( ed. Khalil Georr,1948 )
- De anima (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1954 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De Interpretatione (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1948 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De Interpretatione (Arabic) ( ed. Isidor Pollak,1913 )
- De sophisticis elenchis (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1952 )
- De sophisticis elenchis (so-called Old Translation) (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1952 )
- De sophisticis elenchis (so-called Other Translation, only ch. 1) (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1952 )
- De sophisticis elenchis (translation by Ibn Zurʿah) (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1952 )
- De sophisticis elenchis (translation by Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī) (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1952 )
- Historia animalium (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1971 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Poetica (Arabic) ( ed. David S. Margoliouth,1887 )
- Poetica (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1953 ) Manual Alignment with Greek
- Poetica (Arabic) ( ed. Jaroslaus Tkatsch,1928 )
- Poetica (modern translation) (Arabic) ( ed. Šukrī Muḥammad ʿAyyād,1967 )
- Poetica (translation of Abū Bišr Mattā) (Arabic) ( ed. Šukrī Muḥammad ʿAyyād,1967 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Topica, Bks. 1-6 [vol. 2] and 7-8 [vol. 3] (Arabic) ( ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī,1949, 1952 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Euclid
- Galen
- Ars parva (Arabic) ( ed. Muḥammad Salīm Sālim,1988 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Compendium Timaei Platonis (Arabic) ( ed. Paul Kraus and Richard Walzer,1951 )
- De anatomicis administrationibus (Bk. 5-9) (Arabic) ( ed. Ivan Garofalo,2000 )
- De anatomicis administrationibus (Bk. 5-9), fragments from Oribasius, Collectiones (Arabic) ( ed. Ivan Garofalo,2000 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De anatomicis administrationibus (Bks. 9-15) (Arabic) ( ed. Max Simon,1906 )
- De causis contentivis (Arabic) ( ed. Malcolm C. Lyons,1969 )
- De consuetudinibus (Arabic) ( ed. Felix Klein-Franke,1979 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De diebus decretoriis Alignment (manual page alignment, automatic word alignment)
- De elementis ex Hippocrate (Arabic) ( ed. Muḥammad Salīm Sālim,1986 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De optimo medico cognoscendo (Arabic) ( ed. Albert Z. Iskandar,1988 )
- De partibus artis medicativae (Arabic) ( ed. Malcolm C. Lyons,1969 )
- De partium homoeomerium differentia (Arabic) ( ed. Gotthard Strohmaier,1970 )
- De pulsibus ad tirones (Arabic) ( ed. Muḥammad Salīm Sālim,1985 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De septimestri partu (Arabic) ( ed. Richard Walzer,1935 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De vocibus in artis medicae usitatis/De nominibus medicinalibus (Arabic) ( ed. Max Meyerhof and Josef Schacht,1931 )
- In Hippocratis De officina medici (Arabic) ( ed. Malcolm C. Lyons,1963 )
- In Hippocratis librum primum epidemiarum commentarii Alignment (manual sentence alignment with automatic word alignment)
- Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequantur (Arabic) ( ed. Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt,1973 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Quod optimus medicus (Arabic) ( ed. Peter Bachmann,1965 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Hippocrates
- Aphorisms ( ed. Martijn Theodoor Houtsma,1883 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Aphorisms ( ed. John Tytler,1832 )
- De aere, aquis, locis (recension A) (Arabic) ( ed. John N. Mattock,1969 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De aere, aquis, locis (recension B) (Arabic) ( ed. John N. Mattock,1969 )
- De natura hominis (Arabic) ( ed. John N. Mattock and Malcolm C. Lyons,1968 )
- De officina medici (Arabic) ( ed. Malcolm C. Lyons,1968 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De salubri diaeta (=Bk. 3 of De natura hominis) (Arabic) ( ed. John N. Mattock and Malcolm C. Lyons,1968 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- De superfoetatione (Arabic) ( ed. John N. Mattock,1968 )
- Iusiurandum ( ed. August Müller,1884 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Prognosticon (Arabic) ( ed. Martin Klamroth,1886 ) Automatic Alignment with Greek Automatic Alignment with Greek
- Hypsicles
- Ibn Riḍwān
- Ibn Rušd
- Ibn Suwār
- Ibn Sīnā
- Ibn al-Nadīm
- Nicolaus of Damascus
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Pappus
- Porphyry
- Proclus Diadochus
- al-Fārābī
- al-Ruhāwī
- pseudo-Aristotle
- pseudo-Galen
- pseudo-Hermes Trismegistos
- pseudo-Menander
- pseudo-Plato
- pseudo-Plutarchus
- Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
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This companion volume to the exhibit of the same name examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explores the interactions of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities within urban city life. These three communities practiced their own beliefs and enacted communal self-government, but they also intermingled on a daily basis and practiced shared traditions of life. Essays by leading scholars examine the different religions and languages found at Fustat, as well as cultural aspects of daily life such as food, industry, and education. The lavishly illustrated catalog presents a new analysis of the Oriental Institute’s collection of artifacts and textual materials from 7th through 12th-century Egypt. Highlights include documents from the Cairo Genizah (a document repository) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue as well as never-before-published artifacts from archaeological excavations conducted at Fustat by George Scanlon on behalf of the American Research Center in Egypt. The volume encourages discussion on the challenges of understanding religion through objects of daily life.
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Introduction: Reconstructing Everyday Life at Fustat. Tasha Vorderstrasse and Tanya Treptow
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2. The Oriental Institute Genizah Documents: A Glimpse of Jewish Life in Medieval Cairo. Michael G. Wechsler and Tasha Vorderstrasse
3. Christians of Fustat in the First Three Centuries of Islam: The Making of a New Society. Audrey Dridi
4. Fustat and Its Governor: Administering the Province. Arietta Papaconstantinou
5. Industries, Manufacturing, and Labor. Maya Schatzmiller
6. Linguistic Diversity at Fustat. Tasha Vorderstrasse
7. Childhood at Fustat: Archaeological and Textual Sources. Tasha Vorderstrasse
8. From Fustat to Palestine: Identifying Fatimid Jewelry Using the Genizah Documents from the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Ayala Lester
9. Fustat: The Town, Its Inhabitants, Their Food. Paulina Lewicka
10. Observations on Antiquities in Later Contexts. Vanessa Davies
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