Maimonides On the Regimen of Health: A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation (Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, 12)

Moses Maimonides (Author), Gerrit Bos (Translator), M. R. McVaugh (Translator)

ISBN 10: 9004394052 / ISBN 13: 9789004394056

Published by Leiden : Brill, 2019

About this Item

Parallel Arabic text and English translation. Contents: Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Preface; ‎Introduction; ‎Sigla and Abbreviations; ‎Part 1. Arabic Text and Translation; ‎On the Regimen of Health: Arabic Text with English Translation; ‎Part 2. Hebrew Translations and Supplement; ‎On the Regimen of Health: First Hebrew Translation (Moses Ibn Tibbon); ‎On the Regimen of Health: Second Hebrew Translation (Zeraḥyah Ben Isaac Ben Sheʼaltiel Ḥen); ‎On the Regimen of Health: Third Hebrew Translation (Anonymous); ‎Supplement: Critical Comparison of the Arabic Text with the Medieval Hebrew Translation and the Translations into English and German ‎Part 3. Latin Translations‎Introduction to the Latin Translations of Maimonides' On the Regimen of Health; ‎On the Regimen of Health: First Latin Translation (Giovanni da Capua); ‎On the Regimen of Health: Second Latin Translation (Armengaud Blaise); ‎Glossary; ‎Bibliography; ‎Index of the First Hebrew Translation (Moses Ibn Tibbon); ‎Index of the Third Hebrew Translation (Anonymous); ‎Index of the First Latin Translation (Giovanni da Capua); ‎Index of the Second Latin Translation (Armengaud Blaise); ‎Index of Technical Terms and Materia Medica.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maimonides On the Regimen of Health: A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation (Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, 12)
• Publisher: Leiden : Brill
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: Arabic
• ISBN 10: 9004394052
• ISBN 13: 9789004394056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Islam
  • Medical

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Synopsis

Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health was composed at an unknown date at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son who complained of constipation, indigestion, and depression. The treatise must have enjoyed great popularity in Jewish circles, as it was translated three times into Hebrew as far as we know; by Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon in the year 1244, by an anonymous translator, and by Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben She’altiel Ḥen who was active as a translator in Rome between 1277 and 1291. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, the medieval Hebrew translations and the Latin translations, the latter edited by Michael McVaugh.

About the Author

Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has widely published in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. Michael McVaugh (Ph.D. 1965) is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the history department of the University of North Carolina. He has been a general editor of the Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia since 1975.