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METI: To Recover, Preserve, and Remember (part II)
For the past twenty years, a project called the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI) has been underway at Brigham Young University. METI publishes accessible translations of philosophical, theological, and mystical literature of classical Islamic civilization. In part II, project director Morgan Davis discusses the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship’s engagement with these valuable ancient texts. See part I here.
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The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative: To Recover, Preserve, and Remember
For the past twenty years, a project called the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI) has been underway at Brigham Young University. METI publishes accessible translations of the philosophical, theological, and mystical literature of classical Islamic civilization. In this two-part post, Morgan Davis, director of the project, tells the story of the texts themselves—how and why they came to be, who wrote them, and why the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship employs the highest academic standards to translate and publish them. For more on METI, see meti.byu.edu. A new METI site will be available next month when the brand new Maxwell Institute website launches. —BHodges
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METI's latest Islamic translation now available
As director of the Maxwell Institute's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, I'm excited to announce the newest title in our Islamic Translation Series. John Walbridge's expert edition of The Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen is the product of over a decade of careful collation of manuscripts, translation, and additional interpretive scholarship. Volume one Alexandrian Epitomes is an unusual volume with an unusual history and a unique place in the ITS catalog. As such, it deserves a proper introduction, and who better to do the honors than the editor/translator himself? What follows are excerpts from Professor Walbridge's introductory chapter to volume one of this historically important text. D. Morgan Davis What are the epitomes and where did they come from?
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Announcing METI's new Library of Judeo-Arabic Literature
On behalf of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, I am pleased to announce the addition of an important new series to our Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI). The series, to be called the Library of Judeo-Arabic Literature (LJAL), will publish works written by Jewish authors living within the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. At the invitation of James T. Robinson, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and David Sklare, of the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem, an international team of scholars has come together to advise on the selection and review of texts to appear in this series, which will feature the same dual-language format as other METI publications like the Islamic Translation Series and Eastern Christian Texts. The bilingual format makes primary texts and expert translations simultaneously available to experts, students, and general readers alike. Texts will be selected from across the entire range of genres represented in Judeo-Arabic literature, including philosophy, theology, Biblical interpretation, history, and many other genres.
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