
Al-Maqrizis Traktat über die Mineralien
The short treatise entitled al-Maqa?id al-saniyyah li-ma?rifat al-agsam al-ma?diniyyah by the famous Egyptian historiographer al-Maqrizi (d. 845/1442) deals with the classification of minerals, their medicinal uses and theories of their coming into being. Käs presents for the first time a critical edition of this text along with a German translation and a detailed commentary. The edition of the Arabic text is mainly based on the Leiden codex corrected and enlarged by al-Maqrizi himself. A facsimile of this manuscript is also provided in this volume. Käs was able to prove that the treatise depends almost exclusively on the encyclopedias by Ibn Fa?lallah al-?Umari and al-Qazwini. The contents of their chapters on minerals can in turn be traced back to the early Arabic natural philosophers and their Greek precursors.
- Alaotsikko
- Kitab al-Maqa?id al-saniyyah li-ma?rifat al-agsam al-ma?diniyyah
- Toimittaja
- Fabian Käs
- ISBN
- 9789004277601
- Kieli
- arabia
- Paino
- 651 grammaa
- Julkaisupäivä
- 7.5.2015
- Kustantaja
- BRILL
- Sivumäärä
- 326