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The Arabic Transmission of Dioskurides: Philology Triumphant

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2012-07, Vol.132 (3), p.457-462 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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The Arabic Transmission of Dioskurides: Philology Triumphant
Author: Gutas, Dimitri
Subjects: 800-1199 ; Arabic language ; Arabic language literature ; Arabic language translation ; Attitudes ; Classical literature ; Cultural change ; De Materia Medica ; Dioscorides, Pedanius, of Anazarbos(fl. 60 A. D.) ; Literary translation ; Materia medica ; Names ; Pharmacology ; Philology ; Plant names ; Redaction ; review article ; Review Articles ; Social factors ; Studies ; Syntactic structures ; translation ; Translations ; transmission ; West Asian literature
Is Part Of: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2012-07, Vol.132 (3), p.457-462
Description: [...]Ullmann, scholarship was beholden, with gratitude and awe, to the massive medieval Arabic léxica and grammar books which prescribed meanings and structures; Ullmann, with no less gratitude but with respect rather than awe, looked instead at words and syntactic structures as actually used in real texts - his method is descriptive, not prescriptive. [...]the detailed knowledge that the minute study of the translations provides offers a view of scholarship, scientific practices, and social attitudes, both on a personal and local scale, that enriches our understanding of cultural history.
Publisher: Ann Arbor: American Oriental Society
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0003-0279
EISSN: 2169-2289
DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.132.3.0457
CODEN: JAOSEP
Source: ProQuest Central

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