Essay Review ID: CBB635487725

A New “Edition” of Ḥunayn's Risāla (2018)

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One of the most important medieval documents in the history of medicine and scholarship, and of culture in general, is doubtless the bibliographical treatise (“epistle”, Risāla) by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (808-873) addressed to his patron and patron of the arts, the gentleman courtier ‘Alī b. Yaḥyā b. al-Munaǧǧim (d. 275 / 888-889), listing the translations of Galen into Syriac and Arabic. Its transmission and publication history, though, is extremely complicated.

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Authors & Contributors
Bhayro, Siam
Nicola Carpentieri
Yavuz, Mustafa
Hammood Obaid
Zieme, Stefan
Grigory Kessel
Journals
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Variations: Literaturzeitschrift der Universität Zürich
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Publishers
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Brigham Young University Press
New York University
Concepts
Arabic language
Transmission of texts
Translations
Medicine
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Transmission of ideas
People
Ptolemy
Galen
Gerard of Cremona
Aristotle
al-`Ibadi, Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Ibn Maṭar, al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yusūf
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
9th century
16th century
12th century
Places
Toledo (Spain)
Baghdad (Iraq)
Spain
Egypt
Rome (Italy)
Persia (Iran)
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