Syriac
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
During the early medieval period, Syrian Christians from Eastern Europe such as Nestorians and Monophysites were the ones that translated much of the important Greek science texts from Greek to Syriac and the later on they translated many of the works into Arabic and other languages under Islamic rule. This was a major line of transmission for the development of Islamic science which provided much of the activity during the early medieval period. In the later medieval period, Europeans recovered some ancient knowledge by translations of texts and they built their work upon the knowledge of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, and others works. In Europe, men like Roger Bacon learned Arabic and Hebrew and argued for more experimental science. By the late Middle Ages, a synthesis of Catholicism and Aristotelianism known as Scholasticism was flourishing in Western Europe, which had become a new geographic center of science. |
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Syriac may refer to:
- Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
- Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
- Syriac alphabet
- Neo-Aramaic languages also known as Syriac in most native vernaculars
- Syriac Christianity, the churches using Syriac as their liturgical language
- West Syriac Rite, liturgical rite of the Maronite Syriac Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, and the Syriac Catholic Church
- East Syriac Rite, liturgical rite of the Syro Malabar Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, and the Ancient Church of the East
- Syriacs, a term for Syriac Christians
- Aramean people (Syriacs), an ancient Semitic-speaking people
- Suriyani Malayalam, dialect of Malayalam influenced by Syriac
See also
- Syriac Rite (disambiguation)
- Syrian (disambiguation)
- Syria (disambiguation)
- Suriyani (disambiguation)