Gorgias Press

Founded in 2001 Gorgias Press is an independent academic publisher of books and journals related to history, languages, and religious studies, with specific areas of expertise in the Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Classics, Early Christianity, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, and Syriac.

Gorgias [GOR-gee-us] Press was originally created by George and Christine Kiraz as a specialty press that could keep up with their research interests. With a background in computational linguistics, George Kiraz envisioned combining cutting-edge technology with humanities research. The new company would be completely online, with no physical storefront, and it would use automation and digital printing technology rather than traditional print runs. With these tools, the press could afford to publish rare and understudied topics that were previously considered unprofitable, and Gorgias soon became known for its pioneering work in language and linguistics, religion, and especially Syriac and Eastern Christianity.
Gorgias’ philosophy of “Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge” rather than profit, attracted a number of new authors, and the press’ areas of interest rapidly began to expand. Today, Gorgias Press publishes 50-60 new titles a year, including monographs, edited volumes, translations, and more, and Gorgias books can be found in academic collections all over the world.

Globalization and Economic Justice Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 303
ISBN: 9781463207359
Pub Date: 03 Oct 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A collection of articles dedicated to raising global awareness and the restraining of growing injustice, while supporting the building up of a community that guarantees basic rights in a democratic society.
The Syriac Order of Monastic Profession and the Order of Baptism Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781463206192
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
Is monastic profession in the West-Syriac tradition a “second baptism”? A relationship clearly exists between the two rites of initiation in the West-Syriac tradition: the monastic profession and baptism. Aydin examines these two rites of initiation, comparing their external structures, common imagery and theological themes, and reveals that the monastic rite closely parallels, or even is modeled upon, that of baptism.
An Introduction to Syriac Studies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 103
ISBN: 9781463207137
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
This Introduction aims to provide basic guidance to important areas of Syriac studies. The relevance of Syriac studies to a variety of other fields is explored. A brief orientation to the history of Syriac literature is offered, and Syriac is set within the context of the other Aramaic dialects.
Journal of Language Relationship vol 15/1-2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN: 9781463207120
Pub Date: 27 Jul 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Journal of Language Relationship
Description:
The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.
The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781463205843
Pub Date: 27 Jul 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
A long-awaited and essential tool for the study of one of the earliest texts of the Christian Apocrypha and an important text in Syriac literature, theology, and history.
The Julian Romance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 501
ISBN: 9781463207083
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The so-called "Julian Romance" was discovered among the Nitrian manuscripts in the 1830s. This revised edition, with facing Syriac text and English translation, provides a new, more accurate translation of this important Syriac text.
The Masorah of the Former Prophets in the Leningrad Codex Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 451
ISBN: 9781463205980
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
This work represents the first time that a major part of the masorah of the great Leningrad Codex, that of the Former Prophets, is being published with an English translation and commentary. Almost nine-thousand notes are transcribed and annotated with biblical references.
The Struggle to Define a Nation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 535
ISBN: 9781463206420
Pub Date: 12 Jul 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
In the present edited volume, a serious of internationally recognised scholars adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of ‘religious nationalism’ and the ‘nationalization’ of religion, through focusing on case studies and the religious affiliations and denominations of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The aim of this book is to reconsider the ongoing debate between different communities of the so-called Islamic World regarding the nature of the nation and state, and the role of religion in a nation-state’s institutional ground, both as a viable integrative or segregating factor. It is through focusing on the state dimension, as the subject of collective action or socio- cultural and political representation, that the book proposes to reconsider the relationship between religion, politics and identity in the perspective of ‘religious nationalism’ and the ‘nationalization’ of religion in the contemporary Islamic World.
Pocket Gorgias Syriac-English Dictionary Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9781463207076
Pub Date: 14 Jun 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
The Pocket Dictionary is both a convenient academic resource and a door into the world of Modern Literary Syriac. With 13,000 entries drawn from the major existing works, it is a practical tool for all but the most specialized Classical Syriac texts.
Constantinus Arabicus Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 385
ISBN: 9781463206529
Pub Date: 14 Jun 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Die folgende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Rezeption Konstantins in der arabischen Historiographie, sowoh christlicher- als auch muslimischerseits. Eine genauere Analyse der Texte wird zeigen, wie die Geschichte des ersten christlichen Kaisers eine Projektionsfläche für Identitätskonstrutkionen werden konnte, auch über Religionsgrenzen hinaus.
Princely Authority in the Early Marwānid State Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9781463206321
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. Marwān (d. 86/705) reigned as the amīr of Egypt and walī al-‘ahd (heir apparent) to the Islamic caliphate for over 20 years.
The Problem of Evil Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 201
ISBN: 9781463206543
Pub Date: 16 May 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Who of us has not wondered why a God with absolute attributes causes or allows evil in the world? This most puzzling issue, known as the problem of evil, received significant attention from Ibn Sina. In the present work, Dr.
Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9781463206598
Pub Date: 15 May 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥādīth) found in Ibn Isḥāq's Biography (Sīra) of the prophet Muḥammad, widely considered one of the most important early historical texts on the Prophet's life. Through a meticulous isnād-cum-matn analysis, the author reveals that Ibn Isḥāq relied on Muḥammad b. Abī Muḥammad, a hitherto undocumented source of his.
Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (Vol 1) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 490
ISBN: 9781463206970
Pub Date: 02 May 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Jewish Studies Archive
Description:
This multi-volume work is a reprint of Israel Davidson’s classic opus, with a new introduction by piyyut scholar Michael Rand.
Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (Vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 490
ISBN: 9781463206987
Pub Date: 02 May 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Jewish Studies Archive
Description:
This multi-volume work is a reprint of Israel Davidson’s classic opus, with a new introduction by piyyut scholar Michael Rand.
Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (Vol 3) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 490
ISBN: 9781463206994
Pub Date: 02 May 2017
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Jewish Studies Archive
Description:
This multi-volume work is a reprint of Israel Davidson’s classic opus, with a new introduction by piyyut scholar Michael Rand.