The light of the world [electronic resource] :astronomy in al-Andalus / Joseph Ibn Naḥmias ; edited, translated and with a commentary by Robert G. Morrison.
By: Joseph Ibn Naḥmias, (Astronomer) [author.].
Contributor(s): Morrison, Robert G [editor,, translator,, writer of added commentary.] | Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship: 1.; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 429 pages) :) illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520963030; 0520963032.Uniform titles: Nūr al-ʻālam. English Subject(s): Muslims -- Spain -- Intellectual life -- 14th century | Jews -- Spain -- Intellectual life -- 14th century | Jewish astronomy | Astronomy, Medieval | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800Genre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 520.9/02 Online resources: Full text available: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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.
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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