Ibn Juljul’s Generations of Physicians and Sages : Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices / Oliver Kahl.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 173. | Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices
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- R128.3
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 ṬabaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄʾ wa-l-ḥukamÄ Ê¾, 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.
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