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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 110581839
TI  - Isa ibn Ali's book on the useful properties of animal parts : edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783110549867 3110549867 3110549948 3110550369
PB  - Berlin : De Gruyter,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Zoology, Medical
KW  - Science, Ancient.
KW  - Diet
KW  - Manuscripts, Arabic
KW  - Materia medica, Animal
KW  - Zoology, Economic
KW  - Manuscrits arabes
KW  - Produits animaux en thérapeutique
KW  - Sciences antiques.
KW  - Zoologie
KW  - Early works to 1800.
KW  - Translations.
KW  - Ouvrages avant 1800.
KW  - Ouvrages prélinnéens.
KW  - ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century.
KW  - Science, Ancient
KW  - Medicine, Arab
KW  - Anatomy
KW  - Medicine, Arabic
KW  - Animal Structures
KW  - Human Body
KW  - Materia Medica
KW  - Zoologie médicale
KW  - Sciences anciennes.
KW  - Alimentation
KW  - Matière médicale animale
KW  - Zoologie économique
KW  - Médecine arabe.
KW  - Anatomie.
KW  - anatomy.
KW  - therapeutic use
KW  - Traductions.
KW  - ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī,
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Translations
KW  - Produits animaux en thérapeutique
KW  - Ouvrages prélinnéens.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:110581839
AB  - "The 'Science of properties' represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of Isa Ibn Ali's (9th cent.) 'On the useful properties of animal parts' was the first of such compositions in Arabic. His author was a Syriac physician, disciple of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, who worked at the Abbasid court during the 'floruit' of the translation movement. For the composition of his book, as a multilingual scholar, he collected many different antique and late antique sources. The structure of the text itself-a collection of recipes that favoured a fluid transmission-becomes here the key to a new formal analysis that oriented the editorial solutions as well. The 'Book on the useful properties of animal parts' is a new tile that the Arabic tradition offers to the larger mosaic representing the transfer of technical knowledge in pre-modern times. This text is an important passage in that process of acquisition and original elaboration of knowledge that characterized the early Abbasid period."
ER  -