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Galen and the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus
- Title
- Galen and the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus / Aileen R. Das.
- Author
- Das, Aileen R., 1986-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- xiii, 243 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129-c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplinary norms. It argues that Galen appealed to the entangled cosmological scheme of the dialogue, where different relations connect the body, soul, and cosmos, to expand the boundaries of medicine in his pursuit for epistemic authority - the right to define and explain natural reality. Aileen Das situates Galen's work on disciplinary boundaries in the context of medicine's ancient rivalry with philosophy, whose professionals were long seen as superior knowers of the cosmos vis-à-vis doctors. Her case studies show how Galen and four of the most important Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers in the Arabic Middle Ages creatively interpreted key doctrines from the Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy as well as their own intellectual identities"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-234) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction: Plato's Timaeus as Universal Text as Universal Text -- 1. Galen and 'Medical' Timaeus -- 2. From the Heavens to the Body: Ḥunayn's Ophthalmology -- 3. Al -- Rāzī: The 'Arab Galen' and His Plato, New Disciplinary Ideals -- 4. Laying Down the Law: Avicenna and His Medical Project -- 5. Uprooting the Timaeus : Maimonides and the Re -- medicalization of Galenism -- Conclusion: Medicine Disciplined -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2048
- ISBN
- 9781108499484
- 1108499481
- LCCN
- 2020039489
- OCLC
- 1155064478
- Author
- Das, Aileen R., 1986- author.
- Title
- Galen and the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus / Aileen R. Das.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-234) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Das, Aileen R., 1986- Galen and the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108583107 (DLC) 2020039490
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2048