Notes on Contributors

Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is Nicholas Mesarites: His Life and Works (in Translation) (Liverpool, 2017).

Pieter Beullens published (together with Fernand Bossier) the critical edition of Aristotle’s History of Animals in the Latin translation by William of Moerbeke (two volumes, 2000/2020). His doctoral research focused on the identification of Latin medieval translators of Greek philosophical texts and in particular on the role of Bartholomew of Messina. In his current project as a postdoc of the Flemish Research Fund (FWO-Vlaanderen), he applies tools from computational stylometry to those translations to investigate the development of philosophical concepts.

Charles Burnett (PhD Cambridge, FBA) is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe, Warburg Institute, University of London. His work centres on the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to Western Europe, which he has documented by editing and translating several Arabic–Latin texts and by describing the historical and cultural contexts.

David Omar Cohen studied Classics and German in Amsterdam and Berlin and obtained a doctoral degree on Greek tragedy in 2021. He teaches German, Latin, and ancient Greek in several schools in Amsterdam and is currently working on the publication of his thesis.

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the CNRS in Paris, France. He has written on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, mainly in the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century. His books include: Aristotle’s Theory of Material Substance: Form and Soul, Heat and Pneuma (Oxford, 1995), Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot, 2005), and the edited volumes: Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge, 2011), Studies on Steinschneider (with Reimund Leicht, Leiden, 2011), Latin-into-Hebrew—Studies and Texts, Volume 1: Studies (with Resianne Fontaine, Leiden, 2013). Between 2001 and 2019, he edited Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

Dimitri Gutas is Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Yale University. He has published on the medieval Graeco-Arabic translation movement and its lexicography (GALex), the transmission of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic (most recently Aristotle’s Poetics, Brill, 2012), and Arabic philosophy (Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition, 2nd ed., Brill, 2014, most recently reprised in U. Rudolph, ed., Philosophie in der islamischen Welt, Band 2/1, Basel 2021).

Dag Nikolaus Hasse is Professor in the History of Philosophy at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. He was educated at Göttingen and Yale, and received his PhD at the Warburg Institute in London. He is the author of Avicenna’s ‘De anima’ in the Latin West (2000) and Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance (2016), and is the editor of the online Arabic and Latin Glossary, a dictionary of the vocabulary of the Arabic–Latin translations of the Middle Ages.

Anthony Kaldellis is Professor and Chair of Classics at The Ohio State University. He has translated many Byzantine texts into English, especially historians, and has published many books and articles on topics of Byzantine history, literature, and culture. He is currently writing a new history of Byzantium from beginning to end.

Daniel King specializes in the history of Syriac religion and philosophy, and its contribution to the progress of knowledge. His research is principally concerned with editing Syriac manuscripts containing philosophical material, analysing translation technique and lexicography, and examining how the Syriac tradition adapted to its own environment and idiom the heritage of Greek thought and ideas.

Felix Mundt PhD (2007) has served as an assistant professor and is currently private lecturer of Classical Philology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is working on a bilingual edition of Gellius’s Noctes Atticae.

Ignacio Sánchez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Warwick. He is the executive editor of the journal Endowment Studies, and section-editor of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (History of Science). He has published Epistle On Geography of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (OUP/IIS, 2014), contributed to A Literary History of Medicine: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt al-Aṭibbāʾ (Brill, 2019), and written articles on adab, intellectual history, Islamic pious foundations, and medicine in medieval Islam.

Isabel Toral is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (faculty member since 2018). She received her PhD from the University of Tübingen (1997) and her habilitation from the Freie Universität Berlin (2008). Between 1997 and 2018, she held numerous research positions in Freiburg, Berlin, London, Göttingen, and Mainz. Her main research fields are the Near East in late antiquity, cultural history, translation in the Islamicate world, and adab in classical Islam. Her publications include Al-Ḥīra (2014), and ‘The Iqd Al-Farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih—the Birth of a Classic’, in Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies (2020).

Uwe Vagelpohl is an assistant professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick and, together with Simon Swain, Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust project ‘Streamlining Galen: Medical Summaries and the Transmission of Medicine in Medieval Islam’. His research focuses on the medieval reception of ancient Greek medicine and philosophy in Arabic. His publications include the editions and translations of the Arabic version of Galen’s Commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics, Books 1 and 2, with the Commentary on Book 6 to appear shortly.

Mohsen Zakeri (University of Bochum) is a scholar in the field of Near Eastern history and literature, focusing on late antiquity, especially in the area of Iran and Islam. Besides teaching at several American and European universities, he has authored a series of academic works including Sasanian Soldiers in Early Muslim Society: the Origins of the ʿAyyārān and Futuwwa (1995), and Persian Wisdom in Arabic Garb: ʿAlī b. ʿUbayda al-Rayḥānī (d. 219/834) and his Jawāhir al-kilam wa-farāʾid al-ḥikam (2007).