Dr John Watt
Position:Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Email:WattJ@cf.ac.uk
Research Interests
Syriac Christianity, with special reference to:
- Syriac literature in late antiquity and the middle ages
- Philosophy, Rhetoric and Theology in Abbasid Baghdad and the "Syriac Rennaissance"
- Syriac translation of Greek Theology and Philosophy
- Syriac literature and late antique history and culture
- Syriac influence on Arabic culture
Recent Publications
Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
Al-Farabi and the History of the Syriac Organon (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009)
Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac (Leiden: Brill, 2005)