The session will take place on March 7<\/strong>, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a05 p.m.<\/strong>, in the\u00a0Room C201.J<\/strong> (Room Mattos Rom\u00e3o, Department of Philosophy). Admission is free.<\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n The Syriac reception of Aristotle is a rather underexplored episode in the history of philosophy. In spite of our insufficient knowledge of this phenomenon, there is little doubt that Syrian scholars have played a decisive role in the process of transmission of the late ancient philosophical tradition to the Arab world and thus, indirectly, to medieval Europe.\u00a0 According to the apocryphal story reported by al-Farabi, it was Syrian scholars who became the heirs of the Alexandrian philosophical school after the decline of the latter in the 6th century and who brought this tradition first to \u1e24arran and later to Baghdad.\u00a0 Although this story, which has become known as \u201cfrom Alexandria to Baghdad\u201d complex of narrative, lacks historical credibility, it still points out to the close connection of the Syriac Aristotelians with Alexandria and their influence on the knowledge of Aristotle in the Arab world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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