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Dimitri Gutas, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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Dimitri Gutas, PhD

Education & Training

  • PhD
    Yale University (1974)
  • MA
    Yale University, History of Religions (1969)
  • BA
    Yale University, Arabic and Islamic Studies

Activities

  • Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex)
    Germany 2007
    Professor Gutas is involved in a collaboration with Professor Gerhard Endress of the University of Bochum, Germany, in producing A Greek and Arabic Lexicon. This consists of creating materials for a Dictionary of the Medieval Translations from Greek into Arabic. The lexicon is being produced in fascicles. It started publication in 1992, and so far eight fascicles have been published by the house of Brill in Leiden, the Netherlands. Funds for the research effort come from the Deutsche Forschungsg
  • Philosophy in the Islamic world
    Switzerland 2007
    Professor Gutas is working in a collaborative project aiming to produce a three volume history of philosophy in the Islamic world, from the beginning to the present, in the series, "Ueberweg. Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie."

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