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Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus. Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus al-Qunnāʾī ( Arabic: ﺍﺑﻮ ﺑﺸﺮ ﻣﺘﺎ ﺑﻦ ﻳﻮﻧﺲ القنائي; c. 870-20 June 940) was an Arab Christian philosopher who played an important role in the transmission of the works of Aristotle to the Islamic world. He is famous for founding the Baghdad school of ...
All in all, only a few major works of Aristotle were never translated into Arabic. [8] Of these, the fate of Politics in particular remains uncertain. [9] The rest of Aristotle's books were eventually translated into Latin, but over 600 years later, from about the middle of the 12th century.
Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII), and Rhetoric. [8] The Poetics was lost to the Western world for a long time. The text was restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. [9]
Kural translations by language. v. t. e. The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic. [1] The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century.
Kitāb al-Hayawān. The Kitāb al-Ḥayawān ( Arabic: كتاب الحيوان, lit. ' The Book of Animals ') is an Arabic translation of treatises (Arabic: مقالات, maqālāt) of Aristotle 's: Historia Animalium: treatises 1–10; De Partibus Animalium: treatises 11–14; De Generatione Animalium: treatises 15–19.
Commentaries on Aristotle refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Aristotle. The pupils of Aristotle were the first to comment on his writings, a tradition which was continued by the Peripatetic school throughout the Hellenistic period and the Roman era.
Greece played a crucial role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world. Its rich historiographical tradition preserved Ancient Greek knowledge upon which Islamic art, architecture, literature, philosophy and technological achievements were built. Ibn Khaldun once noted; The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have ...
William of Moerbeke was the first translator of the Politics (c. 1260) into Latin, as the Politics, unlike other parts of the Aristotelian corpus, had not been translated into Arabic. [6] He was also responsible for one of only three medieval Latin translations of Aristotle's Rhetoric. [7]