Marwān Ibn Janāḥ, on the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs (Kitāb Al-Talkhīṣ) (2 Vols)

Edition, Translation and Commentary, with Special Reference to the Ibero-Romance Terminology
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41333-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 170, 1336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2266 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

In early eleventh century Zaragoza, the eminent Jewish scholar Abu l-Walid Marwan ibn Janah wrote a glossary containing almost 1100 entries, entitled Kitab al-Talkhis. This important text, considered lost until recently, contains Arabic and foreign-language names of simple drugs, weights, measures, and other medical terms. In the present volume, the Kitab al-Talkhis is edited and translated for the first time by Gerrit Bos and Fabian Käs. In detailed commentaries, the editors identify the substances mentioned in the Talkhis. They also elaborate on the role of the text in the history of Arabic glossaries concerned with medical nomenclature. Special attention is paid to Ibn Janah’s Ibero-Romance phytonyms, analysed in depth by Mailyn Lübke and Guido Mensching.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bos, Gerrit

Käs, Fabian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lübke, Mailyn

Mensching, Guido

Bos, Gerrit

Käs, Fabian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Ibn Jana?: Life and Work (§§ 1–3)

2 The Kitab al-Talkhi? (§§ 4–7)

3 History of Research (§ 8)

4 The Romance Component (§§ 9–12)

5 The Manuscript (§ 13)

6 Principles of the Edition (§ 14)

7 The Commentary (§ 16)

8 Sources of the Kitab al-Talkhi? (§§ 17–110)

9 Texts Depending on the Kitab al-Talkhi? (§§ 111–119)

Text, Translation, and Commentary

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Bibliography

Index of Arabic and Arabicized Terms

Index of Greek Terms

Index of Berber Terms

Index of Ibero-Romance Terms and Their Latin Etyma

Index of Syriac and Aramaic Terms

Index of Persian Terms

Index of Sanskrit Terms

Index of Scientific Nomenclature

Index of Common Names and Technical Terms

Arabic Index (in Arabic Script)

Index of Authors and Books

Über Autor(innen)

Gerrit Bos, Ph.D. (1989), is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages. He is the series editor of Moses Maimonides, a book series published by Brill that contains critical editions and translations of Maimonides’ medical works.

Fabian Käs, Ph.D. (2008), is Research Fellow at the University of Cologne. His publications include Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie (Wiesbaden 2010) and Al-Maqrizis Traktat über die Mineralien (Leiden: Brill 2015).

Mailyn Lübke, M.A., is Research Fellow/Lecturer at the University of Göttingen. She studied Romance Philology, History, Papyrology, Epigraphy & Numismatics. In her forthcoming Ph.D. thesis she focuses on glosses containing Romance and Latin elements in an Arabic version of Dioscurides’ Materia Medica.

Guido Mensching, Ph.D. (1992), University of Cologne, habilitation 1997 ibid., holds the Chair of Romance linguistics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He has published extensively on Romance medical terminology with a special focus on Judeo-Romance texts and on synonym literature, as well as on the syntax of Romance languages. He is also a specialist in Sardinian.