Dr. Jakub Sypiański

Publications

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Dissertation

2024

Les vases communicants. Les savoirs scientifiques anciens au sein des interactions entre les pays d'Islam et l'Empire romain d'Orient (640-867)

PhD thesis, Sorbonne-Université

Articles & book chapters

2025

Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region

Journal of Quaternary Science (co-authored)

Interdisciplinary study combining historical, archaeological, and environmental data to reconstruct long-term human-landscape interactions in northern Greece.

2023

Ibn Butlan et Syméon Seth

in De Bagdad à Constantinople, Peeters

How the medical writings of the Baghdad physician Ibn Butlan were received and adapted by the Byzantine scholar Symeon Seth in 11th-century Constantinople.

2023

Paideia et adab

in L'adab, toujours recommencé, Brill

A comparison of Greek paideia and Arabic adab as parallel models of learned culture and their points of contact in the medieval Mediterranean.

2020

Photios entre l'Assyrie et al-Andalus

in La diplomatie byzantine, Brill

The diplomatic role of Patriarch Photios and his network of contacts extending from Assyrian Christians to Muslim al-Andalus.

2014

Comprendre les « Sarrasins » à Byzance

in From Constantinople to the Frontier, Oxford

Byzantine perceptions and representations of Arabs and Muslims, from stereotypes to nuanced cultural understanding.

2011

Arabo-Byzantine traffic of manuscripts

in Byzantium and Renaissances

The circulation of Greek scientific manuscripts between Byzantium and the Abbasid caliphate, and their role in the Arabic translation movement.

2011

Arabo-Byzantine relations in the 9th and 10th centuries

in Byzantium and the Arab World, Thessaloniki

A broad overview of political, diplomatic, and intellectual exchanges between the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world in the 9th–10th centuries.