Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ibn-Ǧulǧul, Sulaimān Ibn-Ḥassān
• Kahl, Oliver[Übersetzer]

Titel

Ibn Juljul's generations of physicians and sages

Ist Teil von

• Handbook of Oriental studies : 1,173 (Alle Bände)

Ort / Verlag

Leiden ; Boston : Brill

Erscheinungsjahr

[2023]

Link zu anderen Inhalten

• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• "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"--