'Īsā ibn 'Alī's book on the useful properties of animal parts : edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition / Lucia Raggetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century, author.

Contributor:

Raggetti, Lucia, translator, editor, writer of commentary.

Series:

Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; v. 6.

Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, 2194-976X ; Volume 6

Standardized Title:

Kitāb Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. Kitāb Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān.

ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī.

ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. Kitāb Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān--Translations.

Zoology, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Zoology, Medical.

Science, Ancient.

Diet--Arab countries--Early works to 1800.

Diet.

Manuscripts, Arabic--Early works to 1800.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, Arabic--Translations.

Materia medica, Animal--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica, Animal.

Zoology, Economic--Arab countries--Early works to 1800.

Zoology, Economic.

Translations.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 591 pages ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Book on the useful properties of animal parts

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]

Language Note:

Commentary and English translation.

Summary:

"The 'Science of properties' represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī (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 Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, 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."--Page 4 of cover.

The ?Science of properties? represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of Isa Ibn Ali's (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.

Contents:

Introduction. Authorship and genre

The structure of 'Īsā ibn 'Alī's Manāfi'

The world of recipes : a thematic approach

The edition

The manuscript witnesses and the branches of the tradition

Bibliography

Edition and translation

Introduction. Man

Lion

Wolf

Hyena

Bear

Jerboa

Pig

Dog

Hare

Gazelle

Mountain goat

Deer

Fox

Crocodile

Cow

Horse

Mule

Donkey

Wild donkey

Camel

Sheep

Goat

Wild cow

Roe deer

Cheetah

Elephant

Ichneumon

Stellion

Buffalo

Cat

Lynx

Badger

Weasel

Jackal and chamois

Monkey

Hyrax

Beaver

Hedgehog

Indian hedgehog

Kāša

Salamander

Rhinoceros

Mouse

Mole

Sandgrouse

Vulture

Collared pigeon

Wood pigeon

Hoopoe

Swallow

Quail

Sparrow

Bat

Abū tamra bird

Pigeon

Egyptian vulture

Starling

Kite

Crow

Owl

Rooster

Hen

Ostrich

Goose and duck

Crane

Bustard

Saker falcon

Peacock

Curlew

Eagle

Zummaǧ falcon

Sparrow hawk

Merlin

Hawk

Green woodpecker

Guinea fowl

Turtledove

Wild pigeon

Snake

Scorpion

Ladybird

Lizard

Dung beetle

Chameleon

Blister beetle

White worm

Gecko

Fly

Spanish fly

Hornet

Mantis

Ant

Scarab

Bedbug

Lice

Flea

Spider

Kanǧ

Earthworm

Sperm whale

River crab

Sea crab

Whale

Turtle

River snail

Pearl oyster

Leech

Frog

Freshwater fish

Saltwater fish

Appendix : synoptic table of the manuscript tradition

Thematic index

Arabic-English glossary

English-Arabic glossary.

Notes:

Lucia Raggetti studied Sciences of Languages, History and Civilizations of Mediterranean and Islamic Countries at the University of Naples. In 2011 she earned her PhD with a dissertation on: 'Kitāb Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān. The Book of useful properties that can be obtained from the Parts of Animals". From 2012 to 2017 Lucia Raggetti was research assistant at the Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxvi) and index.

Contains:

Container of expression): ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. Kitāb Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān.

Container of expression): ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. Kitāb Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān. English.

ISBN:

9783110549867

3110549867

OCLC:

985076578

Publisher Number:

99980130209