The libraries of the Neoplatonists : proceedings of the meeting of the European Science Foundation Network 'Late antiquity and Arabic thought : patterns in the constitution of European culture', held in Strasbourg, March 12-14, 2004 under the impuls [...] D'ancona Costa, Cristina 2007 Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ( Serie ) Boston : Brill Italienisch 9789047419471 Abstract

The transmission of Greek learning to the Arabic-speaking world paved the way to the rise of Arabic philosophy. This volume offers a deep and multifarious survey of transmission of Greek philosophy through the schools of late Antiquity to the Syriac-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds.