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medieval worlds • no. 17 • 2022

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medieval worlds provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions.

Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.


Editorial
Ingrid Hartl and Walter Pohl

»The sun was darkened for seventeen days« (AD 797).
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Celestial Phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a Volcanic Eruption
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Ewald Kislinger

Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East
Guest editor: Nathan Gibson

Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East: Introduction
Nathan P. Gibson

Why Muslims Shouldn’t Practice Medicine. The Autobiographical Account of a Frustrated Physician, Ibrahīm al-Qalyūbī (fl. second half 7th/13th)
Ignacio Sánchez

Alī and “Sons of Ādurbādh”: Zoroastrians Priests in the Early Islamic Era
Kayla Dang

On Attributes and Hypostases: Muslim Theology in the Interreligious Writings of Patriarch Timothy I (d. 823)
Joachim Jakob

For the Care of Body and Soul: The Greek Bible and an Arab-Islamic Botanical Text in a 10th-Century Palimpsest Fragment
Matteo Pimpinelli

Interreligious Scholarly Collaboration in Ibn al-Nadīm’s Fihrist
Rémy Gareil

Project Reports

Indexing A Shared Knowledge Culture from Many Perspectives: The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME) as a Tool for Researching Diversity
Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica S. Mutter

Embedding Conquest: Naturalizing Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (Project Report)
Cecilia Palombo

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medieval worlds • no. 17 • 2022

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For the Care of Body and Soul: A CPA Bible and an Arab-Islamic Medical Text in a Tenth-Century Palimpsest Fragment

    Matteo Pimpinelli

medieval worlds • no. 17 • 2022, pp. 145-166, 2022/11/30

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no17_2022s145

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no17_2022s145


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doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no17_2022s145



doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no17_2022s145

Abstract

This paper studies a palimpsest fragment from the Qubbat al-khazna in Damascus, which presents a very interesting composition. The Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) scriptio inferior, already identified as a biblical text (Genesis 19.1-5, 7-10), coexists with the Arabic scriptio superior. This latter, except for the identification of its general content, has not been studied so far. The Arabic text is an excerpt belonging to the medical work entitled Mukhtaṣar fī l-ṭibb (Compendium of medicine) – otherwise known from just one manuscript witness, Rabat, Al-Khizāna al-ʿāmma, 2640 (D 1442c) – written by the Andalusian jurist ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb (d. 238 AH/853 AD). This paper, focused on the textual analysis of the excerpt, provides its edition and translation. The study of the text is integrated with a palaeographical and codicological examination of the Arabic script. These multidisciplinary investigations represent the starting point for some insights related to the history of the fragment. Specifically, a Sinaitic-Palestinian origin, linked to a monastic environment, is suggested, in consideration of some peculiar features: the botanical-pharmaceutical knowledge displayed in the Arabic text of the scriptio superior, the palimpsest order of the fragment, as well as the significant phenomenon of the discard of the religious text (the Bible in CPA) of the scriptio inferior, which can be contextualised within the »arabicisation« process that characterised the monastic milieu of the area from the second/eighth century onwards.

Keywords: Arabic, palimpsest, Ibn Ḥabīb, Qubbat al-khazna, botanical-pharmaceutical

Published Online: 2022/11/30 07:10:31

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