The light of the world [electronic resource] : astronomy in al-Andalus / Joseph Ibn Na�hmias ; edited, translated and with a commentary by Robert G. Morrison.
By: Joseph Ibn Na�hmias (Astronomer).
Contributor(s): Morrison, Robert G [writer of added commentary.] | Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Series: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 429 pages) :) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520287990.Uniform titles: N�ur al-��alam. English Subject(s): Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | Astronomy, Medieval | Jewish astronomyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 520.9/02| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-420) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Judeo-Arabic text of The light of the world -- 2. Translation of the Judeo-Arabic text of The light of the world -- 3. Hebrew recension of The light of the world -- 4. Translation of the significant insertions in the Hebrew recension of The light of the world -- 5. Commentary on the Judeo-Arabic text -- 6. Commentary on the significant insertions in the Hebrew recension of The light of the world -- 7. The Hebrew text of Profiat Duran's response to The light of the world -- 8. Translation of the Hebrew text of Profiat Duran's response to The light of the world.
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This book contains an edition--with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary--of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.
Includes Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic text with English translation ; commentary in English.
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