Constantine the African and ‘Alī Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağdūsī
The Pantegni and Related Texts
Biographical note
Charles Burnett, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 1976), Lecturer in the history of Arabic/Islamic influence in Europe in the Middle Ages at the Warburg Institute, University of London, has written over fifty articles on the transmission of Arabic learning and medieval European culture. His books include an edition of Hermann of Carinthia's De essentiis (Brill, 1982) and a collection of essays on Adelard of Bath (Warburg Institute, 1987).
Danielle Jacquart is Professor at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, Sorbonne), where she holds the chair of "Histoire des sciences au Moyen Age". Her publications deal with medieval medicine and Arabo-Latin translations. She has published: La médicine arabe et l'Occident médiéval (Maisonneuve-et-Larose, 1989).
Danielle Jacquart is Professor at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, Sorbonne), where she holds the chair of "Histoire des sciences au Moyen Age". Her publications deal with medieval medicine and Arabo-Latin translations. She has published: La médicine arabe et l'Occident médiéval (Maisonneuve-et-Larose, 1989).
Readership
Medieval historians, historians of medicine, Islamic scholars, specialists in manuscripts.
Reviews
'...die vorliegende Publikation, dei zwei der besten Kenner der lateinischen Überlieferung arabischer wissenschaftlicher Literatur herausgegeben haben.'
Ursula Weisser, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1995/1996.
Ursula Weisser, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1995/1996.
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