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The question of Syriac influence upon early Arabic translations of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates

The question of Syriac influence upon early Arabic translations of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates

Authors :
Barry, Samuel Chew
Healey, John
Pormann, Peter
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
University of Manchester, 2016.

Abstract

This thesis takes up the question of the part played by Syriac sources in the composition of early Arabic translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms. In it, I compare the four major extant Syriac and Arabic translations of the Aphorisms with continual reference to the content of Syriac lexicons composed by the translator Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and his students and successors. Through detailed treatments of both the definitions and translations of scores of individual Greek terms found in these sources, as well as through analysis of the translations of the Aphorisms, I weigh the relative importance of Greek and Syriac scholarship for Ḥunayn's translation praxis. In doing so, I specify the value of the Syriac lexicons for the study of Greek-to-Arabic translation while clarifying several outstanding issues in the broader history of Syriac and Arabic medicine.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
British Library EThOS
Publication Type :
Dissertation/ Thesis
Accession number :
edsble.689583
Document Type :
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation