Dimitri Gutas

“If living philosophy was dead in Greek and had, furthermore, failed to be transplanted and to acquire an independent status in other…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Certainly the most significant of [the political, social and ideological currents playing a role in the development of philosophical texts in Arabic]…

— Dimitri Gutas

“This translation movement, during the course of which almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek works on science and philosophy were translated…

— Dimitri Gutas

“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Two great contemporary scholars at the antipodes of the cultural spread of Hellenism, Boethius in Rome (d. 525) and Sergius of Re¯ˇsayna…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Al-Kind¯ı’s work revived philosophy as living practice and introduced it in the new social environment of Abbasid Baghdad by making it relevant…

— Dimitri Gutas

“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Intellectual life in the caliphal court just before and after the Abbasid revolution (750), during which time Ibn al-Muqaffa was active, revolved…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the…

— Dimitri Gutas

“To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention…

— Dimitri Gutas

“In ways that have not yet been properly understood, philosophy had a second beginning in Abbasid society by the end of the…

— Dimitri Gutas

“The beginnings of Arabic philosophical literature can be described as taking place in two stages. The first occurs from roughly the middle…

— Dimitri Gutas

“One may guess that the commissioning of this work [a logical textbook and translation into Arabic of Aristotle and Porphyry] must have…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Another aspect of theological discussions that played a role in philosophical arguments is apologetics – that is, Muslim disputations with non-Muslims, a…

— Dimitri Gutas

“In this [turn toward mathematics Al-Kindi] was clearly influenced by Proclus’s Elements of Theology, a partial translation of which he commissioned. Proclus…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated…

— Dimitri Gutas

“At the center of discussion were the questions of legitimacy of succession to the caliphate, the relationship of leadership to faith, and…

— Dimitri Gutas