عنوان

The translating and adapting of al-Farabi's Kitab Ihsa' al-'ulum in Spain

شماره

TLpq304308270

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The translating and adapting of al-Farabi's Kitab Ihsa' al-'ulum in Spain

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael Chester Weber

نام ساير پديدآوران

T. F. Glick

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Boston University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1996

نام خاص و کميت اثر

253-253 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Boston University

امتياز متن

1996

متن يادداشت

Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, historians of medieval science and intellectual historians have been intrigued by the phenomenon of Arabic-Latin translation in twelfth-century Spain; these historians have characterized the efforts of the group of translators working in Spain as a "School". Because these historians utilized an unsuitable model, that of northern European Cathedral Schools, they have failed to find the institution they sought. While these same scholars have acknowledged the importance of the multi-ethnic character of medieval Toledo as the sine qua non of translating, few have displayed any nuanced understanding of the social structure that Americo Castro termed Convivencia and of how scholars actually related to one another across ethnic lines. This dissertation reconsiders the question of the character of this "School" by examining the work of two of the most important Toledan translators, Dominicus Gundisalvus and Gerard of Cremona, in the two Latin translations they made of one Arabic text, al-Farabi's Kitab Ihsa' al-'ulum (Book of the Enumeration of the Sciences). This dissertation concludes that these two translators not only had unequal abilities but that the conventional judgements of them are wrong and need to be reassessed to Gundisalvus' advantage. Extensive comparison of the work of these two further reveals an enormous amount of information about their milieu. These data are then compared with that for other translators working within the same time period and social setting and with Islamic educational practices for educating students in the "Ancient Sciences." The historical data indicate that there was a lively Convivencia among scholars and that the best model to explain Christian translating is not a formal school but one of functional adaptations of polymorphous Islamic institutions and educational practices designed to create philosophers in the Peripatetic tradition, who "know with certainty." This dissertation also demonstrates that Gundisalvus' adaptation of al-Farabi's text, the De Scientiis, was the Latin text most commonly used to provide curricular guidance for the expansion of the quadrivium in the following centuries, most notably in England. Given the importance of this text, the dissertation also presents the first English translation of it.

موضوع مستند نشده

Language, literature and linguistics

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle Ages

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle Ages

موضوع مستند نشده

Social sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Michael Chester Weber

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

T. F. Glick

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y