Al-Jahiz and the Hippocratic Corpus in Arabic
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor James Montgomery (Cambridge) đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00 - 18:30
- đ Venue: Room 8+9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Abstract
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.
Series This talk is part of the Wright Lecture Series series.
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Professor James Montgomery (Cambridge) 
Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30