Dating Medical Translations

The third/ninth-century translator Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq and his associates produced more than a hundred mostly medical translations from Greek into Syriac and then into Arabic. We know little about the chronology of these translations, except for a few scattered remarks in Ḥunayn’s Risāla (Epistle). This...

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Main Author: Vagelpohl, Uwe (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2015
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 86-106
Further subjects:B Dating texts Galen Greek-Arabic translation movement Hippocrates Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq medicine
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