Review: <i>Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl</i>, by Alexandre Roberts
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Abstract
Book Review| February 01 2024 Review: Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, by Alexandre Roberts Alexandre Roberts, Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 376 pp. ISBN: 9780520343498 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780520974821(ebook). $95.00. Abby Kulisz Abby Kulisz McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2024) 8 (1): 130–133. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2024.8.1.130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Abby Kulisz; Review: Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, by Alexandre Roberts. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 February 2024; 8 (1): 130–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2024.8.1.130 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Few events in human intellectual history rival the Baghdadī Greek-to-Arabic translation movement of the eighth to tenth centuries. The Arabic translations reintroduced Greek philosophical and scientific thought to the Islamic world—and eventually to Europe—where they ignited new interest in humanistic and scientific inquiry. Dimitri Gutas’s influential study, Greek Thought, Arabic Culture (1998), has cast a long shadow on the study of Greek thought in the Islamic world. For while Gutas emphasizes the Muslim patrons’ organic interests in philosophy and science as a crucial catalyst in the birth of the movement, his study depicts the Christian translators as hired laborers rather than the producers of original works in their own right. Here Alexandre Roberts’s Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch offers a new portrait of translation culture in the Byzantine Empire. Shifting our focus away from Baghdad to the eleventh-century multicultural milieu of Antioch, Roberts highlights ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl, a Byzantine... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".