Rüdiger Arnzen

R.A. researches the history of medieval Arabic philosophy and the language, vocabulary and translation techniques of the medieval Arabic translations from Greek.

Recent publications related to Graeco-Arabic lexicography:

• A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex). Materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic. Second, revised edition. Vol. I: أ to أين. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Ed. by Rüdiger Arnzen, Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas, with the assistance of Geoffrey J. Moseley. Vol. II: ب to بين. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Ed. by Rüdiger Arnzen, Gerhard Endress, Dimitri Gutas, Geoffrey J. Moseley. (Handbuch der Orientalistik: Abt. 1. Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten; Bd XI.)
• Aristotle's Physics VIII. Translated into Arabic by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (9th c.). Edited with Introduction and Glossaries. (Scientia Graeco-Arabica 30), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
• An Abridged Greek and Arabic Dictionary of the Medieval Translations from Greek into Arabic (ABǦAD). Vol. I: Alpha (Scientia Graeco-Arabica 42/1). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Vol. II: Beta-Delta (Scientia Graeco-Arabica 42/2). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026.
• Pseudo-Aristotle's De Mundo in the Arabic Translation by ͑Īsā b. Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm al-Nafīsī, in: Medioevo 51 (2026).