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Ibn Juljul’s Generations of Physicians and Sages : Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices /

Ibn Juljul, Oliver,

Ibn Juljul’s Generations of Physicians and Sages : Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices / Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices Oliver Kahl. - 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations. - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 173 Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 . - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 173. Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Oliver Kahl -- Copyright Page / Oliver Kahl -- Translation / Oliver Kahl -- Addendum / Oliver Kahl.

In the present book, Oliver Kahl offers, for the first time, a complete, annotated English translation of Ibn Juljul's Ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ wa-l-ḥukamā ʾ, one of the earliest Arabic texts of its kind. Ibn Juljul's work, completed in the year 987 CE in Córdoba, is essentially a collection of biographical essays on ancient and medieval physicians, scientists and philosophers, interspersed with numerous anecdotes and containing a highly instructive, relatively long section on ‘Andalusian sages'. The work represents a most crucial source for our understanding of the evolution and the development of medicine and philosophy in Muslim Spain, drawing also on a number of otherwise unattested Latin-into-Arabic translations, and abounding moreover in burlesque literary embellishments.


English

9789004682238

10.1163/9789004682238 DOI

2023031786


Islamic literature, Arabic--Spain--Andalusia. 
Medicine, Ancient--Early works to 1800. 
Medicine, Arab. 
Medicine, Medieval. 
Physicians--Early works to 1800. --Biography

R128.3

610.938