Cover -- Series Page -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 From Alexandria to Baghdad: Max Meyerhof revisited -- 2 From Sergius to Matt?: Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in Syriac tradition -- 3 The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and Baghdad -- 4 Sergius of Reshaina on the prolegomena to Aristotle's logic: the commentary on the Categories, chapter two -- 5 The prolegomena to the Aristotelian philosophy of George, bishop of the Arabs -- 6 Why did ?unayn, the master translator into Arabic, make translations into Syriac? On the purpose of the Syriac translations of ?unayn and his circle -- 7 The Syriac translations of ?unayn ibn Is??q and their precursors -- 8 Greek thought and Syriac controversies -- 9 Julian's Letter to Themistius - and Themistius' response? -- 10 Themistius and Julian: their association in Syriac and Arabic tradition -- 11 Literary and philosophical rhetoric in Syriac -- 12 Greek philosophy and Syriac culture in Abbasid Iraq -- 13 Graeco-Syriac tradition and Arabic philosophy in Bar Hebraeus -- 14 Aristotle's Rhetoric and political thought in the Christian Orient and in al-F?r?b?, Avicenna, and Averroes -- Index.