Marwān ibn Janāḥ, On the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ) (2 vols)

Gerrit Bos, Ph.D. (1989), is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages. He is the series editor of Moses Maimonides, a book series published by Brill that contains critical editions and translations of Maimonides’ medical works. Fabian Käs, Ph.D. (2008), is Research Fellow at the University of Cologne. His publications include Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie (Wiesbaden 2010) and Al-Maqrīzīs Traktat über die Mineralien (Leiden: Brill 2015). Mailyn Lübke, M.A., is Research Fellow/Lecturer at the University of Göttingen. She studied Romance Philology, History, Papyrology, Epigraphy & Numismatics. In her forthcoming Ph.D. thesis she focuses on glosses containing Romance and Latin elements in an Arabic version of Dioscurides’ Materia Medica. Guido Mensching, Ph.D. (1992), University of Cologne, habilitation 1997 ibid., holds the Chair of Romance linguistics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He has published extensively on Romance medical terminology with a special focus on Judeo-Romance texts and on synonym literature, as well as on the syntax of Romance languages. He is also a specialist in Sardinian.

Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction

 1 Ibn Janāḥ: Life and Work (§§ 1–3)

 2 The Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ (§§ 4–7)

 3 History of Research (§ 8)

 4 The Romance Component (§§ 9–12)

 5 The Manuscript (§ 13)

 6 Principles of the Edition (§ 14)

 7 The Commentary (§ 16)

 8 Sources of the Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ (§§ 17–110)

 9 Texts Depending on the Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ (§§ 111–119)



Text, Translation, and Commentary

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Bibliography

Index of Arabic and Arabicized Terms

Index of Greek Terms

Index of Berber Terms

Index of Ibero-Romance Terms and Their Latin Etyma

Index of Syriac and Aramaic Terms

Index of Persian Terms

Index of Sanskrit Terms

Index of Scientific Nomenclature

Index of Common Names and Technical Terms

Arabic Index (in Arabic Script)

Index of Authors and Books