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Ê¿AlÄ« ibn Sahl Rabban aá¹-ṬabarÄ«âs Health Regimen or âBook of the Pearlâ
Arabic Text, English Translation, Introduction and Indices
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The Arabic treatise edited and translated here was written in the middle of the 9th century CE by Ê¿AlÄ« ibn Sahl Rabban aá¹-ṬabarÄ«, a Christian convert to Islam and one of the most remarkable thinkers of his time. The text can be described as a manual towards the preservation of health, addressed directly to the Ê¿AbbÄsid caliph al-Mutawakkil and his household. It represents not only the oldest extant specimen of its kind, but is also distinguished by its largely non-technical language, as well as by a narrative style that creates an unusual interface with classical Arabic prose literature. The Greek and Indian sources upon which aá¹-ṬabarÄ« relied testify to the synthetic and inclusive character of early Islamic medicine.
Oliver Kahl, Ph.D. (1993), University of Manchester, is Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies at Marburg University, Germany. He has published several books (mainly with Brill) as well as numerous articles on the history of Arabic medicine.
âDie englische Ãbersetzung â erfahrungsgemäà ist es diese, die bei der Leserschaft auf das gröÃte Interesse stöÃt â ist präzise und folgt eng der arabischen Vorlage, bleibt aber dennoch flüssig lesbar. Sie wird sicher einen groÃen Beitrag dazu leisten, dieses bislang selbst in engsten Fachkreisen unbekannte Werk einer weiteren Ãffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen.â
- Fabian Käs, Zeitschrift Orientalistische Literaturzeitung , 117.1 (2022).
- Fabian Käs, Zeitschrift Orientalistische Literaturzeitung , 117.1 (2022).
Arabists, Indologists, scholars of Greek and Syriac, historians of medicine and science, cultural historians, and all those concerned with knowledge transfer in premodern times.