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"This collection of essays studies the movement of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period from historical and philological perspectives. Rejecting the presumption that texts simply travel without changing, the contributors examine closely the nature of these writings, which are concerned with such topics as science and medicine, and how they changed over the course of their journeys.
Transit and transformation give texts new subtexts and contexts, providing windows through which to study how memory, encryption, oral communication, cultural and religious values, and knowledge traveled and were shared, transformed, and preserved. This volume broadens how we think about texts, communication, and knowledge in the medieval world.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Mushegh Asatryan, Brian N. Becker, Leonardo Capezzone, Leigh Chipman, Ofer Elior, Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, B. Harun K³þ³k, Israel M. Sandman, and Tamßs Visi.
List of contents
"Contents
Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert Morrison, ôIntroductionö
Robert Morrison, ôThe Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy among Romaniot Jewsö
Ofer Elior, ôRabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's æI HeardÆ: A Case Study in Byzantine Jews' Appropriation of Provencal-Jewish Philosophy and Scienceö
Tzvi Langermann, ôGradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites: Two Theories and their Role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the Revealerö
Leigh Chipman, ôCryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East: From Mosul to Venice?ö
Leonardo Capezzone, ôOn Memory: From the Humanism of pseudo-Ibn Al-MuqaffaÆ to the Science of pseudo-Jabir Ibn Hayyanö
Brian Becker, ôRiccoldo da MontecroceÆs Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multi-Faceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterraneanö
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, ôNarratives of the æSecond FallÆ in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Sourcesö
Mushegh Asatryan, ôShiæi Underground Literature between Iraq and Syria:
æThe Book of ShadowsÆ and the History of Early Ghulatö
Tamßs Visi, ôMedieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts: Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from Byzantium to Ashkenaz?ö
Israel M. Sandman, ôThe Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italyö
Harun K³þ³k, ôMedical Translations and the ôHikmet-i Tabiyyeö Problematic in Eighteenth-Century Istanbulö
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Y. Tzvi Langermann is Professor of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University.Robert G. Morrison is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College.
Summary
A collection of essays using historical and philological approaches to study the transit of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period. Examines the nature of texts themselves and how they travel, and reveals the details behind the transit of texts across cultures, languages, and epochs.
