The Arabic Reception of Late Antique Literature
Kevin T. van Bladel
Between the seventh and tenth centuries, Arabic became chief language of learning from Spain to Afghanistan. Beginning in late eighth century for 300 years, scholars knowledgeable older literary traditions, including Aramaic, Middle Persian, above all Greek, translated innumerable works into Arabic. Nothing was that not available antiquity, many extant antiquity are lost original but survive their translations. Importantly, selection translation preservation new medium based on different criteria those used Carolingian renovatio, Renaissance, Byzantine scholarly tradition, effecting thereby a different, third major “classical tradition” reception ancient besides Greek Latin.