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Galen's Commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics constitute one of the most detailed studies of Hippocratic medicine from Antiquity. The Arabic translation of the Commentaries by . . .unayn ibn Is. . . āq (d. c. 873) is of crucial importance because it preserves large sections now lost in Greek, and because it helped to establish an Arabic clinical literature. The present contribution investigate the translation of this seminal work into Syriac and Arabic. It provides a first survey of the manuscript tradition, and explores how physicians in the medieval Muslim world drew on it both to teach medicine to students, and to develop a framework for their own clinical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Classical Tradition is often studied from a Eurocentric point of view. The present article argues that the Arab world is as much heir to the legacy of Greece as the 'West'. It does so by focusing on the reception of Classical Antiquity during the so-called Arabic 'Cultural Awakening' (Nahd .a), 1870-1950. It investigates more specifically 1) how Greek epic and dramatic poetry, which had not been part of the versions produced during the great translation movement in eighth- to tenth-century Baghdad, was rendered into Arabic; 2) how Greek drama inspired Arabic playwrights, with Taufīq al-H. akīm urging his fellow countrymen to engage with the Classical heritage; and 3) how the greatest Arab intellectual of the twentieth century T .ā hā H . usain, fought for Greek and Latin teaching in schools and university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]