Courses

In the Academic year 2020-2021 I’m helding at “Sapienza Università di Roma” a course concerning the history of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement and in particular the topic of the Orosius Arabicus.

Lectures in this Course

1

A little sketch of Islamic history

2

The ‘Abbasid translation movement

3

Orosius and the so called Historiae adversus paganos

4

The discover of the manuscript

5

Cordoba in the Umayyad epoch

6

Why translate Orosius in Islamic al-Andalus?

7

The sponsor and the translators

8

The content of the text

9

The fortunes of the work