Alexander Treiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1483154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Treiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Treiger |
| SIGNATURE | TREIGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5251-5389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Composite Christian Arabic Manuscript in the Köprülü Library
This notice presents the first detailed description of Ms. Istanbul, Köprülü Library, Mehmed Âsım Bey 1 bis , a composite Christian Arabic manuscript hitherto known only through a minimal catalog entry. The codex consists of numerous fragmentary units copied by different hands and brought together without a codicological plan. Its contents include multiple independent Arabic New Testament witnesses – fragments of three distinct Gospel manuscripts…
The Church Fathers in Arabic Translations
"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 wri…
The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book X.14–17a
The Longer Theology of Aristotle ( LThA ) is an interpolated version of the Theology of Aristotle (the latter being an Arabic adaptation of Plotinus’ Enneads IV – VI ). LThA is preserved mainly in Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and a sixteenth-century Latin translation. Its importance lies in the fact that some non-Plotinian interpolations contained therein may be witnesses to lost Arabic philosophical sources (such as “Ibn Ḥasdāy’s Neoplatonist” postu…
An East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus
The ninth-century Damascene Christian scholar, priest, and monk Bišr ibn al-Sirrī (fl. ca. 870) is known as the author of Arabic biblical translations and commentaries and Arabic festal homilies. The present contribution demonstrates that the homilies contained in Sinai ar. 431 without attribution are to be ascribed to Bišr ibn al-Sirrī. It also examines new evidence for Bišr ibn al-Sirrī’s Christology and proves that Bišr ibn al-Sirrī was an Eas…
The Macarian Homilies and Maximus the Confessor as Sources of al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī (The Noetic Paradise)
Al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī ( The Noetic Paradise ) is an anonymous patristic treatise on spiritual life, which, as far as currently known, is lost in the original Greek and preserved only in Arabic. The purpose of the present contribution is to explore two of the principal sources of the Firdaws : the Macarian Homilies and the writings of St. Maximus the Confessor. This source-critical examination is a crucial preliminary step towards contextualizing th…
“The Intellect is a Point and a Circle”
In his ground-breaking monograph Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī , Paul Walker has pointed out parallels between al-Sijistānī’s Kitāb al-Maqālīd and the Longer Theology of Aristotle – an augmented version of the Theology of Aristotle preserved mainly in Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and a sixteenth-century Latin translation. This raises the question of whether it is al-Sijistānī who cites the Longer Theo…
Envisioning Islam
Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World. By Michael Philipp Penn. Divina tions: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. v + 294. $59.95, £39
The Longer Theology of Aristotle in al-Andalus
The present article reports the discovery of previously unknown quotations from the Longer Theology of Aristotle ( LThA ), preserved in Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s (d. 776/1374) philosophical-mystical treatise Rawḍat al-taʿrīf bi-l-ḥubb al-sharīf (composed in Granada ca. 1366). The first of these quotations contains the famous ekstasis passage, which is not preserved in Judeo-Arabic. The second quotation has a close parallel in the Epistles of t…
Arap Hristiyanlığı
Arapça konuşanlar, İncil’in vaazını işiten ilk halklar arasındaydı. Onlar ilk Pentakost’a şahitlik ettiler ve vizyon geçirdikten hemen sonra Arabistan’ı (Bugünkü Ürdün) ziyaret eden havari Pavlus’u işittiler. İslam’ın ortaya çıkışından önce her ne kadar birkaç Arap kabilesi Hıristiyanlığı kabul etmiş ve hiç şüphesiz Arapçayı kendi dini pratiklerinde kullanmış olsalar da Arapçanın Hıristiyan yazınsal dili olarak kullanımı, İslam’ın Ortadoğu’yu fet…
The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antioch
The present article surveys the early stages of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite translation movement in Antioch, from the first known translation (the Graeco-Syriac version of the Life of St. Symeon the Stylite the Younger, BHG 1689) dating to 827/8 AD to the Antiochene translators Ibrāhīm the protospatharios, Gregory of Dafnūnā, Chariton of Aršāyā, and Yūḥannā ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (the compiler of the Antiochene Menologion), all of them disciples of the…
Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations
Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th–10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969–1084). These Arabic translations preserve patristic texts lost in the original languages. They offer crucial information about the diffusion and influence of patristic heritage among Middle East…
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700
Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from the 8th century. Pre-modern Arab Christian literature embraces such diverse genres as Arabic translations of the Bible and the Chur…
John of Scythopolis on Divine Darkness
The present article provides a commentary on the sixth-century Christian bishop John of Scythopolis' scholion on Dionysius the Areopagite's Mystical Theology I.3. In this scholion, John discusses the various Greek translations of Ex. 20:18/21. He also refers to a Jewish cosmological tradition about the seven heavens. Various rabbinic parallels to John of Scythopolis are discussed. The article argues that John most likely has recourse to an oral J…
The Fathers in Arabic
Origins of
This article investigates the origins of Kalām in the debate culture of Late Antiquity. Following Michael Cook and Jack Tannous, it argues that kalām -style argumentation has its origin in Christological debates and was then absorbed into Muslim practice through the mediation of the Arab Christian milieu in Syria and Iraq. The second part of the article considers the origins of the Qadar debate (human free will versus divine predestination). Fina…
Interpreting Avicenna
(First paragraph) Peter Adamson ́s Interpreting Avicenna is a collection of twelve essays, written by leading experts on the “Chief Master„ of Arabic philosophy “ al-Sheikh al-raʾīs. Far from being a loose collection of disjointed pieces, this volume stands out as a well-structured and comprehensive handbook on Avicenna. This in itself is a remarkable achievement, which alone would make the volume indispensable. Additionally, each and every essay…
Al‐Ghazālī's “Mirror Christology” and Its Possible East‐Syriac Sources
Monism and Monotheism in al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt al-anwār
Monism and Monotheism in al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt al-anwār
Monism and Monotheism in al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt al-anwār
Monism and Monotheism in al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt al-anwār
Al‐Ghazālī's “Mirror Christology” and Its Possible East‐Syriac Sources
Origins of
This article investigates the origins of Kalām in the debate culture of Late Antiquity. Following Michael Cook and Jack Tannous, it argues that kalām -style argumentation has its origin in Christological debates and was then absorbed into Muslim practice through the mediation of the Arab Christian milieu in Syria and Iraq. The second part of the article considers the origins of the Qadar debate (human free will versus divine predestination). Fina…
Interpreting Avicenna
(First paragraph) Peter Adamson ́s Interpreting Avicenna is a collection of twelve essays, written by leading experts on the “Chief Master„ of Arabic philosophy “ al-Sheikh al-raʾīs. Far from being a loose collection of disjointed pieces, this volume stands out as a well-structured and comprehensive handbook on Avicenna. This in itself is a remarkable achievement, which alone would make the volume indispensable. Additionally, each and every essay…
The Fathers in Arabic
The Longer Theology of Aristotle in al-Andalus
The present article reports the discovery of previously unknown quotations from the Longer Theology of Aristotle ( LThA ), preserved in Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s (d. 776/1374) philosophical-mystical treatise Rawḍat al-taʿrīf bi-l-ḥubb al-sharīf (composed in Granada ca. 1366). The first of these quotations contains the famous ekstasis passage, which is not preserved in Judeo-Arabic. The second quotation has a close parallel in the Epistles of t…
Arap Hristiyanlığı
Arapça konuşanlar, İncil’in vaazını işiten ilk halklar arasındaydı. Onlar ilk Pentakost’a şahitlik ettiler ve vizyon geçirdikten hemen sonra Arabistan’ı (Bugünkü Ürdün) ziyaret eden havari Pavlus’u işittiler. İslam’ın ortaya çıkışından önce her ne kadar birkaç Arap kabilesi Hıristiyanlığı kabul etmiş ve hiç şüphesiz Arapçayı kendi dini pratiklerinde kullanmış olsalar da Arapçanın Hıristiyan yazınsal dili olarak kullanımı, İslam’ın Ortadoğu’yu fet…
The Beginnings of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite Translation Movement in Antioch
The present article surveys the early stages of the Graeco-Syro-Arabic Melkite translation movement in Antioch, from the first known translation (the Graeco-Syriac version of the Life of St. Symeon the Stylite the Younger, BHG 1689) dating to 827/8 AD to the Antiochene translators Ibrāhīm the protospatharios, Gregory of Dafnūnā, Chariton of Aršāyā, and Yūḥannā ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (the compiler of the Antiochene Menologion), all of them disciples of the…
Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations
Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th–10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969–1084). These Arabic translations preserve patristic texts lost in the original languages. They offer crucial information about the diffusion and influence of patristic heritage among Middle East…
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700
Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from the 8th century. Pre-modern Arab Christian literature embraces such diverse genres as Arabic translations of the Bible and the Chur…
John of Scythopolis on Divine Darkness
The present article provides a commentary on the sixth-century Christian bishop John of Scythopolis' scholion on Dionysius the Areopagite's Mystical Theology I.3. In this scholion, John discusses the various Greek translations of Ex. 20:18/21. He also refers to a Jewish cosmological tradition about the seven heavens. Various rabbinic parallels to John of Scythopolis are discussed. The article argues that John most likely has recourse to an oral J…
Envisioning Islam
Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World. By Michael Philipp Penn. Divina tions: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. v + 294. $59.95, £39
“The Intellect is a Point and a Circle”
In his ground-breaking monograph Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī , Paul Walker has pointed out parallels between al-Sijistānī’s Kitāb al-Maqālīd and the Longer Theology of Aristotle – an augmented version of the Theology of Aristotle preserved mainly in Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and a sixteenth-century Latin translation. This raises the question of whether it is al-Sijistānī who cites the Longer Theo…
An East-Syriac Scholar in Ninth-Century Damascus
The ninth-century Damascene Christian scholar, priest, and monk Bišr ibn al-Sirrī (fl. ca. 870) is known as the author of Arabic biblical translations and commentaries and Arabic festal homilies. The present contribution demonstrates that the homilies contained in Sinai ar. 431 without attribution are to be ascribed to Bišr ibn al-Sirrī. It also examines new evidence for Bišr ibn al-Sirrī’s Christology and proves that Bišr ibn al-Sirrī was an Eas…
The Macarian Homilies and Maximus the Confessor as Sources of al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī (The Noetic Paradise)
Al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī ( The Noetic Paradise ) is an anonymous patristic treatise on spiritual life, which, as far as currently known, is lost in the original Greek and preserved only in Arabic. The purpose of the present contribution is to explore two of the principal sources of the Firdaws : the Macarian Homilies and the writings of St. Maximus the Confessor. This source-critical examination is a crucial preliminary step towards contextualizing th…
The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book X.14–17a
The Longer Theology of Aristotle ( LThA ) is an interpolated version of the Theology of Aristotle (the latter being an Arabic adaptation of Plotinus’ Enneads IV – VI ). LThA is preserved mainly in Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and a sixteenth-century Latin translation. Its importance lies in the fact that some non-Plotinian interpolations contained therein may be witnesses to lost Arabic philosophical sources (such as “Ibn Ḥasdāy’s Neoplatonist” postu…
The Church Fathers in Arabic Translations
"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 wri…
A Composite Christian Arabic Manuscript in the Köprülü Library
This notice presents the first detailed description of Ms. Istanbul, Köprülü Library, Mehmed Âsım Bey 1 bis , a composite Christian Arabic manuscript hitherto known only through a minimal catalog entry. The codex consists of numerous fragmentary units copied by different hands and brought together without a codicological plan. Its contents include multiple independent Arabic New Testament witnesses – fragments of three distinct Gospel manuscripts…
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