The Church Fathers in Arabic Translations (Receptio Patristica, 2)

Book info: The Church Fathers in Arabic Translations (Receptio Patristica, 2) (Hardcover, 453 pages) – Brill, 2024. Language: English.

This volume tells the story of the Arabic translations of the Church Fathers. By tracing the history of major translation centres, such as Palestine, Sinai, and Antioch, it describes how Middle Eastern Christians translated into Arabic, preserved, and engaged with their Patristic heritage. In addition to well-known authors, such as Gregory of Nazianzus, Ephrem the Syrian, and Dionysius the Areopagite, the volume presents a Patristic treatise written in Greek but preserved only in Arabic: the Noetic Paradise. Finally, by reconstructing a lost Arabic Dionysian paraphrase used by the Muslim theologian al-Ghazali, the volume explores Patristic influences on Islamic thought. Editorial Reviews About the Author Alexander Treiger, Ph.D. (2008, Yale University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is editor of the series “Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies” (Brill). He has published extensively on translations from Greek into Arabic, Arabic Christianity, and Islamic philosophy and theology.