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Textual and Intellectual Reception of Arabic Astral Theories in the Twelfth Century

Saif, Liana·2015·The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy
DOI 10.1057/9781137399472_4
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The twelfth century witnessed a translation movement that invigorated medieval intellectual culture by making available Arabic scientific and philosophical works containing a ‘new’ perspective on the workings of nature without an overt materialism that sidelines the divine will. 1 The earliest texts to be translated were medical and astrological, 2 thus epis-temologically making knowable man and the heavens. The revival of Galenic medicine was initiated by Constantine the African (d. c . 1087) who brought from Qairouan an Arabic medical corpus to be translated in Salerno and the Benedictine monastery of Montecassino. It was part of the project in which the most influential medical text in the twelfth century was translated, the Pantegni by Haly Abbas ( The Complete Book of Medical Art of ‘Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Majusi). A high number of astrological texts were being translated in Spain, especially Toledo. Gerard of Cremona (d. 1178) translated Ptolemy’s Almagest , and John of Seville translated al-Qabisi’s Introduction to Astrology and Abu Ma‘shar’s Great Introduction (1133). He translated many texts on astrology, magic and talismans including Pseudo-Aristotle’s Secretum secretorum ( Secret of Secrets ), Mash’allah’s De rebus eclipsium ( On Eclipses ), al-Tabari’s De nativ-itatibus ( On Nativities ) and Thabit ibn Qurra’s De imaginibus . To John of Seville was attributed the translations of Abu Ma‘shar’s Flores ( The Flowers ; Kitab tahawil sini al-‘alam ) and De magnis conjunctionibus ( On the Great Conjunctions ; Kitab al-qiranat ). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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  1. Charles Burnett, ‘Translating from Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: Theory, Practice, and Criticism’, in Éditer, Traduir, Interpréter: Essais de Méthodologie Philosophique, ed. P. W. Rosemann, C. Rutten, M. Lambert, et al. (Louvain: Éditions Peeters, 1997), pp. 55–78 (64);
  2. Joshua D. Lipton, ‘The Rational Evaluation of Astrology in the Period of Arabo-Latin Translation’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of California/Los Angeles, 1978), pp. 36–7; Guy Beaujouan, ‘Transformation of the Quadrivium’, in Benson et al., Renaissance and Renewal, pp. 463–87 (480).
  3. This title refers to the text that contains introductory tables and the Liber de tribus generalibus iudiciis. The latter is often used as a label given to the second half. The title Liber de quatuor partibus de astronomice iudicandi also refers to the whole but is sometimes retained for the first half only. See Nicholas Whyte, ‘Roger of Hereford’s Liber de Astronomice iudicandi: A Twelfth-Century Astrologer’s Manual’ (unpublished MPhil dissertation, Clare College, 1991), pp. 3, 15, 25–6; French, ‘Foretelling the Future’, p. 466;
  4. Hugh of St Victor, The Didascalion of Hugh of St Victor, trans. Jerome Taylor (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1961), p. 51.
  5. Burnett, ‘Arabic into Latin in Twelfth Century Spain: The Works of Hermann of Carinthia’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 13 (1978), pp. 100–34 (100, 126–7).
  6. Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi, Kitab al-madkhal al-kabir ila ’ilm ahkam al-nujum (The Great Introduction), ed. Richard Lemay, 9 vols. (Naples: Instituto Universitario Orientale, 1995–6), II, p. 7.
  7. Plato, ‘Timaeus’, in Complete Works, trans. John M. Cooper (Indiana: Hackett, 1997), 1236–7, 30c–31b, pp. 1224–91.
  8. Peter Ellard, The Sacred Cosmos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 9.
  9. Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, trans. William Harris Stahl (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952), pp. 145–6.
  10. Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos Libri VIII, trans. Jean Rhys Bram (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1975), p. 17.
  11. Charles Burnett, ‘Adelard of Bath and the Arabs’, in Recontres de cultures dans la philosophie médiévale: Traductions et traducteurs de l’antiquité tradive au XIVe siècle, ed. M. Fattori and J. Hamesse (Louvain-la-neuve: Université catholique de Louvain, 1990), pp. 89–107 (105–6).
  12. Alistair Crombie, ‘Science’, in Medieval England, ed. A. L. Poole, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1958), II, pp. 571–604 (579).
  13. Daniel of Morley, Liber de naturis inferiorum et superiorum, ed. Karl Sudhoff (Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 1917), p. 6;
  14. Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary, trans. and ed. Charles Burnett (Leiden: Brill, 1982), p. 4.
  15. Brian Stock, Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernard Silvestris (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972), p. 13;

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Authors
Saif, L.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Saif, Liana
ORCID
Saif, Liana
Venue
The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
2015
Pages
46-69
DOI
10.1057/9781137399472_4
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W2506970867
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46
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book chapter
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en
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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Medieval and Classical Philosophy
Keywords
astrology, Gerard of Cremona, Constantine the African, Ptolemy's Almagest, Secretum secretorum, Thabit ibn Qurra, Galenic medicine, Toledo, Salerno, Monte Cassino

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