Marwān ibn Janāḥ: on the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-talkhīṣ) : edition, translation and commentary, with special reference to the Ibero-Romance terminology /

Marwān ibn Janāḥ: on the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-talkhīṣ) : edition, translation and commentary, with special reference to the Ibero-Romance terminology /

In early eleventh century Zaragoza, the eminent Jewish scholar Abū l-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ wrote a glossary containing almost 1100 entries, entitled Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ . This important text, considered lost until recently, contains Arabic and foreign-language names of simple drugs, weights, measures,...

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Main Author: Ibn Janāḥ, Abū al-Walīd Marwān, approximately 990-approximately 1050 (Author)

Other Authors: Bos, Gerrit, 1948- (Editor), Käs, Fabian (Editor), Lübke, Mailyn (Editor), Mensching, Guido (Editor), Ibn Janāḥ, Abū al-Walīd Marwān, approximately 990-approximately 1050.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; 170.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868.

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Arabic language > Dictionaries > English.
Botany > Dictionaries > Arabic.
Botany > Dictionaries.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • alif
  • bāʾ
  • jīm
  • dāl
  • hāʾ
  • wāw
  • zāy
  • ḥāʾ
  • ṭāʾ
  • yāʾ
  • kāf
  • lām
  • mīm
  • nūn
  • sīn
  • ʿayn
  • fāʾ
  • ṣād
  • qāf
  • rāʾ
  • shīn
  • tāʾ
  • thāʾ
  • khāʾ
  • dhāl
  • ḍād
  • ghayn
  • 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.