Evagrius Ponticus’ Arabic tradition

Abstract

Some of Evagrius’ works (a religious author of the end of the 4th century) were translated from Greek into Arabic. The article draws on an inventory of these Arabic translations and it supplements the previous inventories by G. Graf and S. K. Samir. It also describes the characteristics of the manuscript transmission, with a particular emphasis on cases of pseudepigraphy, and attempts to establish them. For every Arabic text, there is a sample of the language of the version used by the translator, whether it is Greek, Syriac or Coptic.