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Entry for Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition
forthcoming in M. Azaiez, R. Gareil, I. Hasan (eds.), Itinerary Prophets. Rewritings, Appropriati... more forthcoming in M. Azaiez, R. Gareil, I. Hasan (eds.), Itinerary Prophets. Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in Islamic Sources, De Gruyter, Berlin 2025.
(International conference organized in 2021)
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783110780727/html?lang=en
Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers: Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature, 2020, 2020
E. Cottrell (ed.), Prophets, Viziers, and Philosophers [Proceedings of the International Conferen... more E. Cottrell (ed.),
Prophets, Viziers, and Philosophers [Proceedings of the International Conference organized at the FU Berlin on October 10th-11th, 2014], Barkhuis (Ancient Narratives Supplementum 28), Groningen 2020, pp. 329-392
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies, 2019
The hypothesis made by the late David Pingree of a Middle-Persian translation of Dorotheus has pa... more The hypothesis made by the late David Pingree of a Middle-Persian translation of Dorotheus has paved the way to a full theory according to which Arabic astrological treatises and parts of Hermetic literature had been transmitted through Sassanian intermediaries. The paper offers an in-depth analysis of the elements offered by Pingree to support his hypothesis.
Ancient Narrative Supplement 25
On the circulation of the Pseudo-Callisthenes and that of the Epistolary Novel of Alexander and A... more On the circulation of the Pseudo-Callisthenes and that of the Epistolary Novel of Alexander and Aristotle at the Buyid Court in Iraq and Iran during the 10th-11th c.
in K. Nawotka et A. Wojciechowska (eds.), Alexander the Great and the East. History, Art, Traditi... more in K. Nawotka et A. Wojciechowska (eds.), Alexander the Great and the East. History, Art, Tradition, Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 2016.
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title\_1628.ahtml
A Reconstruction of Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras according to his Philosophical History, from th... more A Reconstruction of Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras according to his Philosophical History, from the excerpts preserved in the Selected Maxims, by the Fatimid Ismaili scholar al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik (Cairo, XIth c.) and the Generations of the Physicians by Ibn Abī Usaybiʻa (Cairo and Damascus, XIIIth c.). Published in Renger and Stavru (eds.), Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2016, 467-518.
in P. Koetschet and P. Pormann, La construction de la médecine arabe médiévale, 2015
Docteur EPHE, Membre associé du LEM (UMR 8584) Paradoxalement, la technologie du XX e siècle n'a ... more Docteur EPHE, Membre associé du LEM (UMR 8584) Paradoxalement, la technologie du XX e siècle n'a pas rendu plus accessibles les fonds conservés dans les bibliothèques. Les chercheurs doivent à leurs frais se rendre d'un endroit à l'autre pour examiner le plus souvent des microfilms de mauvaise qualité, et ceci alors que la possibilité de scanner les manuscrits et de les rendre accessibles gratuitement et à tous via l'internet serait sans doute moins onéreuse que les coûts de reproduction. Mais l'exemple des trésors archéologiques grecs en Grande-Bretagne n'encourage guère à l'optimisme.
“Notes sur quelques-uns des témoignages médiévaux relatifs à l’Histoire philosophique de Porphyre... more “Notes sur quelques-uns des témoignages médiévaux relatifs à l’Histoire philosophique de Porphyre”, in A. Akasoy and W. Raven, Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. In Honour of Hans Daiber, Brill, Leiden 2008, pp. 523-555.
In the middle of the thirteenth century, Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri al-Ishraqi (d. between 1287 a... more In the middle of the thirteenth century, Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri al-Ishraqi (d. between 1287 and 1304) wrote an Arabic history of philosophy entitled Nuzhat al-Arwah wa Raw∂at al-AfraÌ. Using some older materials (mainly Ibn Nadim; the ∑iwan al-Ìikma, and al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik), he considers the 'Modern philosophers' (ninth-thirteenth c.) to be the heirs of the Ancients, and collects for his demonstration the stories of the ancient sages and scientists, from Adam to Proclus as well as the biographical and bibliographical details of some ninety modern philosophers. Two interesting chapters on Adam and Seth have not been studied until this day, though they give some rare – if cursory – historical information on the Mandaeans, as was available to al-Shahrazuri al-Ishraqi in the thirteenth century. We will discuss the peculiar historiography adopted by Shahrazuri, and show the complexity of a source he used, namely al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik's chapter on Seth, which betray genuine Mandaean elements.
This paper has been elaborated within the frame of a Marie Curie fellowship provided by the Europ... more This paper has been elaborated within the frame of a Marie Curie fellowship provided by the European Union for my project on ‘Early Arabic Literature in Context: the Hellenistic Continuum’. It was presented at the XXIXth International Conference on the History of Arabic Sciences at the Maʼhad al-Turāth in the University of Aleppo on 3rd-5th Nov. 2009.
Adam and Seth in Arabic Medieval Literature
Entry for Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition
forthcoming in M. Azaiez, R. Gareil, I. Hasan (eds.), Itinerary Prophets. Rewritings, Appropriati... more forthcoming in M. Azaiez, R. Gareil, I. Hasan (eds.), Itinerary Prophets. Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in Islamic Sources, De Gruyter, Berlin 2025.
(International conference organized in 2021)
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783110780727/html?lang=en
Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers: Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature, 2020, 2020
E. Cottrell (ed.), Prophets, Viziers, and Philosophers [Proceedings of the International Conferen... more E. Cottrell (ed.),
Prophets, Viziers, and Philosophers [Proceedings of the International Conference organized at the FU Berlin on October 10th-11th, 2014], Barkhuis (Ancient Narratives Supplementum 28), Groningen 2020, pp. 329-392
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies, 2019
The hypothesis made by the late David Pingree of a Middle-Persian translation of Dorotheus has pa... more The hypothesis made by the late David Pingree of a Middle-Persian translation of Dorotheus has paved the way to a full theory according to which Arabic astrological treatises and parts of Hermetic literature had been transmitted through Sassanian intermediaries. The paper offers an in-depth analysis of the elements offered by Pingree to support his hypothesis.
Ancient Narrative Supplement 25
On the circulation of the Pseudo-Callisthenes and that of the Epistolary Novel of Alexander and A... more On the circulation of the Pseudo-Callisthenes and that of the Epistolary Novel of Alexander and Aristotle at the Buyid Court in Iraq and Iran during the 10th-11th c.
in K. Nawotka et A. Wojciechowska (eds.), Alexander the Great and the East. History, Art, Traditi... more in K. Nawotka et A. Wojciechowska (eds.), Alexander the Great and the East. History, Art, Tradition, Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 2016.
https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title\_1628.ahtml
A Reconstruction of Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras according to his Philosophical History, from th... more A Reconstruction of Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras according to his Philosophical History, from the excerpts preserved in the Selected Maxims, by the Fatimid Ismaili scholar al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik (Cairo, XIth c.) and the Generations of the Physicians by Ibn Abī Usaybiʻa (Cairo and Damascus, XIIIth c.). Published in Renger and Stavru (eds.), Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2016, 467-518.
in P. Koetschet and P. Pormann, La construction de la médecine arabe médiévale, 2015
Docteur EPHE, Membre associé du LEM (UMR 8584) Paradoxalement, la technologie du XX e siècle n'a ... more Docteur EPHE, Membre associé du LEM (UMR 8584) Paradoxalement, la technologie du XX e siècle n'a pas rendu plus accessibles les fonds conservés dans les bibliothèques. Les chercheurs doivent à leurs frais se rendre d'un endroit à l'autre pour examiner le plus souvent des microfilms de mauvaise qualité, et ceci alors que la possibilité de scanner les manuscrits et de les rendre accessibles gratuitement et à tous via l'internet serait sans doute moins onéreuse que les coûts de reproduction. Mais l'exemple des trésors archéologiques grecs en Grande-Bretagne n'encourage guère à l'optimisme.
“Notes sur quelques-uns des témoignages médiévaux relatifs à l’Histoire philosophique de Porphyre... more “Notes sur quelques-uns des témoignages médiévaux relatifs à l’Histoire philosophique de Porphyre”, in A. Akasoy and W. Raven, Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. In Honour of Hans Daiber, Brill, Leiden 2008, pp. 523-555.
In the middle of the thirteenth century, Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri al-Ishraqi (d. between 1287 a... more In the middle of the thirteenth century, Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri al-Ishraqi (d. between 1287 and 1304) wrote an Arabic history of philosophy entitled Nuzhat al-Arwah wa Raw∂at al-AfraÌ. Using some older materials (mainly Ibn Nadim; the ∑iwan al-Ìikma, and al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik), he considers the 'Modern philosophers' (ninth-thirteenth c.) to be the heirs of the Ancients, and collects for his demonstration the stories of the ancient sages and scientists, from Adam to Proclus as well as the biographical and bibliographical details of some ninety modern philosophers. Two interesting chapters on Adam and Seth have not been studied until this day, though they give some rare – if cursory – historical information on the Mandaeans, as was available to al-Shahrazuri al-Ishraqi in the thirteenth century. We will discuss the peculiar historiography adopted by Shahrazuri, and show the complexity of a source he used, namely al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik's chapter on Seth, which betray genuine Mandaean elements.
This paper has been elaborated within the frame of a Marie Curie fellowship provided by the Europ... more This paper has been elaborated within the frame of a Marie Curie fellowship provided by the European Union for my project on ‘Early Arabic Literature in Context: the Hellenistic Continuum’. It was presented at the XXIXth International Conference on the History of Arabic Sciences at the Maʼhad al-Turāth in the University of Aleppo on 3rd-5th Nov. 2009.
Adam and Seth in Arabic Medieval Literature