1st Edition
Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic A Critical Edition, with Translation and Commentary, of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Kitab ayyam al-buhran
By Glen M. Cooper
Copyright 2011
640 Pages
by
Routledge
640 Pages
by
Routledge
640 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language. The substantial introduction contextualizes the treatise within the Greek and Arabic traditions. Galen's Critical Days was a founding text of astrological medicine. In febrile illnesses, the... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Transliteration conventions; The scope of the present study; Part I Historical Background: Introduction; The Critical Days in Arabic; An historical reconstruction; The sciences in the Critical Days; Sources of the edition. Part II Edition and Translation of the De diebus decretoriis; Signs and conventions employed in the Apparatus Criticus; The Critical Days: Arabic edition: Book I; Book II; Book III; English translation: Book I; Book II; Book III. Part III Commentary: Preface to commentary; Referencing the main text; Book I; Book II; Book III. Part IV Appendices; Bibliography; Indices.
Biography
Glen M. Cooper is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University, USA
'... great service that Cooper has done all those interested in Graeco-Arabic studies and the history of medicine by making this Arabic version available and accessible. For this, he deserves our thanks.' Journal of Islamic Studies 'Cooper’s book is an important contribution to the history of science.' Aestimatio
