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in Baghdad in 932. Accounts of the debate are considered to be biased towards al-Sirafi, but the debate appeared to have gone in al-Sirafi's favour, who attacked the concept of logic as only applicable to the Greeks and not useful for Arabic speakers. Al-Sirafi also managed to confound Abu Bishr with
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These Arabic translations of the Aristotelian corpus were continued by his students (especially Yahya ibn Adi) and were used by later Arabic philosophers such as
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Henri Hugonnard-Roche, « L'intermédiaire syriaque dans la transmission de la philosophie grecque à l'arabe »,
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H. Vivian B. Brown, « Avicenna and the Christian Philosophers in Baghdad », in S. M. Stern et al.,
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with many high-ranking officials. He then taught in Baghdad where the Muslim philosopher
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Abu Bishr was reported to have had a debate with the Muslim theologian and grammarian,
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Abu Bishr wrote several commentaries of his own on Aristotle but they are all lost.
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Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic: Farabian Aristotelianism
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philosopher who played an important role in the transmission of the works of
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Abu Bishr is best known for his Arabic translations of Aristotle and of his
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a series of Arabic grammatical riddles. Abu Bishr's younger colleagues,
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to the Islamic world. He is famous for founding the Baghdad school of
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
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would later offer additional arguments to support his case.
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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy : A Historical Journal
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Street, Tony (1 January 2015). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.).
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2 (1), 1991, Cambridge University, pp. 187–209.
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Index

Arabic
Arab Christian
Aristotle
Aristotelian philosophers
name
Nestorian
Baghdad
Abbasid Caliphate
Al Farabi
Syriac Christian
Yahya ibn Adi
Greek commentators
Syriac
Kitab al-Fihrist
Sophistical Refutations
Avicenna
Posterior Analytics
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Metaphysics
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Themistius
On Generation and Corruption
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Olympiodorus the Younger
Sense and Sensibilia
Poetics
De Caelo
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Olympiodorus the Younger

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