Epidemics in context : Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition / edited by Peter E. Pormann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pormann, Peter E.

Series:

Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; v. 8.

Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 1868-7172 ; Band 8

Language:

Arabic

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Hippocrates. Epidemics.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Medicine, Arab.

Disease Outbreaks.

History, Ancient.

Medicine, Arabic.

Greek World.

London <2010>.

Epidemics (Hippocrates).

Medical Subjects:

Disease Outbreaks.

History, Ancient.

Medicine, Arabic.

Greek World.

Local Subjects:

London <2010>.

Physical Description:

334 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]

Language Note:

In English; occasional phrases in Arabic or Ancient Greek with English translations.

Summary:

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.

Contents:

Introduction

A new manuscript : Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Ayasofya 3592 / Bink Hallum [and others]

Exegesis, explanation and epistemology in Galen's commentaries on Epidemics, books one and two / Philip J. van der Eijk

Sympathy between Hippocrates and Galen : the case of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics', book two / Brooke Holmes

The Arabic version of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics', book two as a source for the Hippocratic text : first remarks / Robert Alessi

The Syriac epidemics and the problem of its identification / Grigory Kessel

Galen, Epidemics, book one : text, transmission, translation / Uwe Vagelpohl

The art of the translator, or : how did Ḥunayn ibn ʼIsḥāq and his school translate? / Oliver Overwien

Galen the pagan and Ḥunayn the Christian : specific transformations in the commentaries on Airs, waters, places and the Epidemics / Gotthard Strohmaier

The Arabic reception of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics' / Bink Hallum

Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic translation : the example of melancholy / Peter E. Pormann, N. Peter Joosse

'Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Prognostic' : a preliminary exploration / N. Peter Joosse, Peter E. Pormann

Recipes by Hippocrates, Galen and Ḥunayn in the Epidemics and in medieval Arabic pharmacopoeias / Leigh Chipman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-321) and index.

ISBN:

9783110259797

3110259796

OCLC:

753350785