Avicenna in medieval Hebrew translation : Todros Todrosi's translation of Kitab al-najat, on psychology and metaphysics /

Avicenna in medieval Hebrew translation : Todros Todrosi's translation of Kitab al-najat, on psychology and metaphysics /

In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna's Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros Ṭod...

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Main Author: Berzin, Gabriella.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 91.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262485.

Subjects:

Avicenna, > 980-1037. > Najāh.
Translating and interpreting > History > To 1500.
Arabic literature > 750-1258 > Translations into Hebrew.
Hebrew literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Psychology.
Metaphysics.

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Call Number: P306.2 .B47 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • Ṭodros Ṭodrosi's Hebrew Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt (Haẓalat ha-Nefesh), Section Two, Treatise Six: "On the Soul"
  • Ṭodros Ṭodrosi's Method of Translation: A Study of Language and Translation Techniques
  • Shem Ṭov ben Joseph Ibn Falaquera and Ṭodros Ṭodrosi: Two Translators of a Similar Text
  • Conclusion
  • Avicenna's Metaphysics in Ṭodros Ṭodrosi's Incomplete Hebrew Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt, III
  • Glossaries
  • Bibliography
  • Index.