Dimitrie Cantemir, Salvation of the Sage and Ruin of the Sinful World

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the first edition of the Arabic version of Dimitrie Cantemir’sThe Divan or the Sage’s Dispute with the World, achieved in 1705 by Athanasios Dabbas, Patriarch of the Antiochian Church.

Ioana Feodorov, Ph. D. (1998), Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, is a researcher of Christian Arabic literature connecting the Patriarchate of Antioch with Romanian lands, author of contributions on Arabic travelogues, Arabic manuscripts, Cantemir studies etc. Yulia Petrova, Ph. D. (2007), Researcher in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Senior Lecturer in Kiev National Linguistic University, author of contributions on Arabic philology, translation, stylistics, and comparative typology, translator of Arabic medieval manuscripts.Virgil Candea, Ph. D. (1970), Vice-President of the Romanian Academy, Professor of Religious Art and the Theology of the Icon at the University of Bucharest, a scholar of Dimitrie Cantemir’s life and works, a specialist in Romanian and East-European medieval studies, church art and printing. Died in 2007.