Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.) (Arabic Thought and Culture)

Dimitri Gutas Ph.D. 1975 in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University, is Professor of Arabic at Yale. He has published on the medieval Gracco-Arabic translation movement and its lexicography, the translation of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic, and Arabic philosophy. Most recently he published the Greek text and medieval Arabic translation show more of Theophrastus, On First Principles (2010), and, with Leonardo Tarian the edition maior of Aristotle's Poetics (2012). show less