ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition

Lucia Raggetti

Published by De Gruyter 2019

ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts

Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition

Lucia Raggetti

Volume 6 in the series Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110550368

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About this book

The ‘Science of properties’ represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī (9th cent.) ‘On the useful properties of animal parts’ was the first of such compositions in Arabic. His author was a Syriac physician, disciple of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, who worked at the Abbasid court during the floruit of the translation movement. For the composition of his book, as a multilingual scholar, he collected many different antique and late antique sources. The structure of the text itself—a collection of recipes that favoured a fluid transmission—becomes here the key to a new formal analysis that oriented the editorial solutions as well. The ‘Book on the useful properties of animal parts’ is a new tile that the Arabic tradition offers to the larger mosaic representing the transfer of technical knowledge in pre-modern times. This text is an important passage in that process of acquisition and original elaboration of knowledge that characterized the early Abbasid period.

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Lucia Raggetti, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Edition and translation Publicly Available Download PDF	VIII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	XXXV
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Arabic Studies, History of Medicine and Pre-Modern Pharmacology, Philology and textual criticism.
Pages
- Front matter: 36
- Main content: 591
Illustrations
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Arabic medicine; pre-modern pharmacology

eBook

Published: December 17, 2018
ISBN: 9783110550368

Hardcover

Published: January 14, 2019
ISBN: 9783110549867