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Darrera modificació: 2024-04-09
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Loinaz, Theo, Alʔilbīrī's Book of the rational conclusions: Introduction, Critical Edition of the Arabic Text and Materials for the History of the Ḫawāṣṣic Genre in Early Andalus, Tesi doctoral de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2024, 1194 pp.
- Resum
- The Book of the rational conclusions, written perhaps somewhen in the 10th c. by a physician from Ilbīrah (Andalus), is a multi-section medical pandect. The author brings together, from a diversity of sources, materials dealing with matters related to drug-handling, natural philosophy, therapeutics, medical applications of the specific properties of things, a regimen, and a dispensatory. This dissertation includes three different parts. First the transmission of the text, its contents, and its possible context are discussed. Then a critical edition of the Arabic text is offered. Last, but certainly not least, the subject of the specific properties is approached from several points of view. The analysis of Section III of the original book leads to an exploration of the early Andalusī assimilation of this epistemic tradition and to the establishment of a well-defined textual family in which our text must be inscribed. On the other hand, the concept itself of ‘specific property' is often misconstrued and it is usually made synonymous to magic and superstition. Upon closer inspection, however, the alleged irrationality of the knowledge of these properties appears to be largely the result of anachronistic interpretation. As a complement of this particular research and as an illustration of the genre, a sample from an ongoing integral commentary on this section of the book is presented.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Enciclopedisme mèdic
Màgia - Màgia natural
Història de la medicina
Arabisme
Fonts
Àrab
- Notes
- Dir.: Miquel Forcada (UB).
- URL
- http://hdl.handle.net/10803/690021
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