The interactions between the Syriac, Arabic and Greek traditions
Résumé
This article examines the correlations and mutual influences of the Syriac, Arabic and Greek grammatical traditions, in a historical and chronological approach. The spreading of Greek culture in the Middle East during Late Antiquity provides the context for the assimilation of the Greek grammatical theories, first and more clearly by Syriac scholars and translators and later on, through a less certain path, by Arabic grammarians and philosophers. Evidences of contacts among the three traditions grow during the Abbasid rule of the Middle East, from the 9th to the 13th cent., with the progressive infiltration of Arabic linguistic ideas in the works of Syriac grammarians.