Dr John Watt
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Publications
2013
- Watt, J. 2013. The Syriac Aristotle between Alexandria and Baghdad. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 7, pp. 26-50. (10.18573/j.2013.10316)
2011
- Lössl, J. and Watt, J. W. eds. 2011. Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in late antiquity: The Alexandrian commentary tradition between Rome and Bagdhad. Farnham: Ashgate.
2010
- Watt, J. 2010. Commentary and translation in Syriac Aristotelian scholarship: Sergius to Baghdad. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 4, pp. 28-42. (10.18573/j.2010.10302)
2005
- Watt, J. W. 2005. The strategy of the Baghdad philosophers. The Aristotelian tradition as a common motif in Christian and Islamic thought. In: Ginkel, J. J. v., Murre-van den Berg, H. L. and Lint, T. M. v. eds. Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural Interaction in the Middle East Since the Rise of Islam. Peeters, pp. 151-165.
- Watt, J. W., Isaac, D., Faultless, J. and Shihadeh, A. 2005. Aristotelian rhetoric in Syriac. Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, book of rhetoric. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus Vol. 18. Leiden: Brill.
2004
- Watt, J. W. 2004. Syriac Translators and Greek Philosophy in Early Abbasid Iraq. Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 4, pp. 15-26.
- Watt, J. W. 2004. Syriac and Syrians as Mediators of Greek Political Thought to Islam. Melanges de l'Universite Saint-Joseph 57, pp. 121-149.