The “Commentary” That Saved the Text. The Hazardous Journey of Ibn al-Haytham's Arabic Optics (2007)
Sabra, A. I. (Author)
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 12
Pages: 117--133
The "Text" and the "Commentary" mentioned in the title of this essay are, respectively, the Kitab al-Manazir, or Optics, of al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, composed in the first half of the fifth/eleventh century, and the Tanqih al-Manazir li-dhawi l-absar wa l-basa'ir, written by Abu l-Hasan (or al-Hasan) Kamal al-Din al-Farisi in the second half of the seventh/thirteenth century. It is known that, so far, only the first five of the seven maqalat /Books that make up the Arabic text of IH's Optics have been published, and that the Tanqih was published in two volumes. I shall be concerned with certain episodes in the lives of these two works, my aim being to shed light on their transmission within the Islamic Arabic and Persian worlds.
...MoreDescription On the transmission of the text and the commentary within the Islamic Arabic and Persian worlds.
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