Avicenna’s Shifāʾ (Sufficientia): in Defense of Medieval Latin Translators

This article explores the reasons why medieval Latin translators used the term Sufficientia to translate the title of Avicenna’s philosophical work, known in Arabic as al-shifāʾ and did not use instead terms like “healing” or “cure”, which are now frequently used. The article demonstrates that those...

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Главный автор: Saliba, George 1939- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2017
В: Der Islam
Год: 2017, Том: 94, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 423-433
Online-ссылка: Volltext (Publisher)
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Итог:This article explores the reasons why medieval Latin translators used the term Sufficientia to translate the title of Avicenna’s philosophical work, known in Arabic as al-shifāʾ and did not use instead terms like “healing” or “cure”, which are now frequently used. The article demonstrates that those medieval Latin translators may after all have had a better understanding of classical Arabic linguistic sources than they are usually credited for, and were thus fully justified to opt for the translation they used.
Объем:Online-Ressource
ISSN:1613-0928
Второстепенные работы:In: Der Islam
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/islam-2017-0026