Introduction / Dimitri Gutas
Latin translations of Greek science and philosophy : some relevant passages
Felix Mundt and David Cohen
Translations from Greek into Middle Persian as repatriated knowledge / Mohsen Zakeri
Why the Syrians translated Greek philosophy and science / Daniel King
Why do we translate? Arabic sources on translation / Uwe Vagelpohl and Ignacio Sánchez
The Nabatean agriculture by Ibn Waḥshiyya, a pseudo-translation by a pseudo-translator : the topos of translation in the occult sciences / Isabel Toral
Translations into Greek in the Byzantine period / Anthony Kaldellis
The statements of medieval Latin translators on why and how they translate works on science and philosophy from Arabic / Charles Burnett
Latin translators from Greek in the twelfth century on why and how they translate / Michael Angold and Charles Burnett
Why did Latin translators translate from the Greek in the thirteenth century and later? / Pieter Beullens
Why translate? Views From within : egodocuments by translators from Arabic and Latin into Hebrew (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) / Gad Freudenthal
Renaissance scholars on why they translate scientific and philosophical works from Arabic into Latin / Dag Nikolaus Hasse.