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  • Four - The Classical Near East

  • from I - Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
  • Edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, University of Oklahoma, Jack Tannous, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Worlds of Byzantium
    Published online:
    18 October 2024
    Print publication:
    17 October 2024, pp 78-97

  • Summary

    Terms like “Classical Arabic,” “Classical Armenian,” “Classical Syriac,” and “Classical Persian,” though not entirely unproblematic, arouse minimal controversy and are widely used. These Near Eastern languages have their classical traditions of learning, all arising in the same region, all interacting with one another. Let us therefore envision a “Classical Near East” to foster modern scholarly exchange between specialists in pre-modern Near Eastern history and philology. This essay explores the prospects of a broader arena of ancient and medieval research for specialists in the premodern Near East that transcends the specializing delimitation of modern identities and religions