Al-Jahiz and the Hippocratic Corpus in Arabic

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• Professor James Montgomery (Cambridge)
• Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30
• Room 8+9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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This paper will consider why al-Jahiz may have been reading Greek medical texts in Arabic. It will present an overview of some of al-Jahiz’s discussions of falsafah including a translation of a fragment previously unedited.

This talk is part of the Wright Lecture Series series.

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