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'Isa ibn 'Ali's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts - Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition (Hardcover) Loot Price: R7,266
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'Isa ibn 'Ali's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts - Edition, translation and study of a fluid...

'Isa ibn 'Ali's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts - Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition (Hardcover)

Lucia Raggetti

Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures

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The 'Science of properties' represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of 'Isa ibn 'Ali (9th cent.) 'On the useful properties of animal parts' was the first of such compositions in Arabic. His author was a Syriac physician, disciple of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, who worked at the Abbasid court during the floruit of the translation movement. For the composition of his book, as a multilingual scholar, he collected many different antique and late antique sources. The structure of the text itself-a collection of recipes that favoured a fluid transmission-becomes here the key to a new formal analysis that oriented the editorial solutions as well. The 'Book on the useful properties of animal parts' is a new tile that the Arabic tradition offers to the larger mosaic representing the transfer of technical knowledge in pre-modern times. This text is an important passage in that process of acquisition and original elaboration of knowledge that characterized the early Abbasid period.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
Release date: 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Lucia Raggetti
Dimensions: 280 x 210mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 627
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-054986-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Islam
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Islam
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 3-11-054986-7
Barcode: 9783110549867

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