Übersetzung aus dem Arabischen und lateinisches medizinisches Vokabular: einige Beispiele

Die in Italien und Spanien zwischen dem 11. und dem 13. Jahrhundert entstandenen lateinischen Übersetzungen von arabischen Werken eignen sich bestens für eine Untersuchung des mittelalterlichen medizinischen Vokabulars. Ihre Verfasser blieben zwar der vorher existierenden Terminologie verhaftet, sie leisteten jedoch einen Beitrag zur Etablierung einer neuen. Genau diesen Übergang von einer Terminologie zu einer anderen wollen wir veranschaulichen. Wir stützen uns dabei auf Texte, für die wir ..

The Nile: its role in the fortunes and misfortunes of the Fatimid dynasty during its rule of Egypt (969-1171)

The epoch spanning the years 935-1094 constitutes - on the whole - the longest and driest period on record in the history of the Nile. A stretch of relatively normal discharge followed this phase, only for dryness to return. The reasons of this dry-wet-dry phenomenon have been recently appraised in the context of global climatic changes – the so-called “Medieval Warm Period” - that affected most of the known world between the 11th and the 13th centuries. It was in this period of Egyptian history that the Shi‘i Isma‘ili Fatimids replaced the Sunni Ikhshidids as rulers in 358/969 and, with alternating fortunes, continued to reign until 567/1171. In this paper, I examine how, faced with the convergence of extraordinary geo-climatic factors, the Fatimids managed (and mismanaged) the Nile and its valley. I contend that the imperial aspirations of the Fatimids in Cairo and beyond were in many ways subject to the typical unpredictability of the natural cycles of the river, hence the Fatimids’ success and failure in managing the varied economic, political and trading activities that took place along the Egyptian section of the Nile valley. A case in point highlighted here will be the Fatimids’ privileging of flax cultivation over wheat

Bo Holmerg, A Treatise of the Unity and Trinity of God, by Israel of Kaskar (d. 872), Introduction, edition and word-index. («Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions», vol. 3) Lund, 1989

Troupeau Gérard. Bo Holmerg, A Treatise of the Unity and Trinity of God, by Israel of Kaskar (d. 872), Introduction, edition and word-index. («Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions», vol. 3) Lund, 1989. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°9, 1992. pp. 63-64

E. Platti. La grande polémique antinestorienne de Yahya B. ‘Adi (I), éditée et traduite dans Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 427 et 428 (Scriptores Arabici, t. 36 et 37)

Troupeau Gérard. E. Platti. La grande polémique antinestorienne de Yahya B. ‘Adi (I), éditée et traduite dans Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 427 et 428 (Scriptores Arabici, t. 36 et 37). In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 201, n°2, 1984. p. 213

Daniel J. Lasker et Sarah Stroumsa, The polemic of Nestor the Priest (Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer), vol. I, Introduction, annoted translations and commentary, vol. II, Introduction and critical edition, Jerusalem, 1996

Troupeau Gérard. Daniel J. Lasker et Sarah Stroumsa, The polemic of Nestor the Priest (Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer), vol. I, Introduction, annoted translations and commentary, vol. II, Introduction and critical edition, Jerusalem, 1996. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°15, 1999. pp. 202-203