Ibn Juljul's Generations of Physicians and Sages

Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68222-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 173, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

In the present book, Oliver Kahl offers, for the first time, a complete, annotated English translation of Ibn Juljul’s Tabaqat al-atibba' wa-l-hukama', 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahl, Oliver

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kahl, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

1 Background

2 Ibn Juljul

3 “Generations of Physicians and Sages”

4 Plate

Translation

Addendum

Bibliography

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Kahl, Ph.D. (1993), University of Manchester, is Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies at Marburg University, Germany. He has published several books and numerous articles on the history of medieval Arabic medicine and science.