Oliver Kahl

In this study of the Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in Rhazes’ (d. 925 CE) famous Arabic encyclopedia titled al-Ḥāwī, Oliver Kahl offers for the first time a textual and historical documentation of an hitherto neglected ‘foreign’ cluster of material.

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Gerrit Bos

This book offers an Arabic edition, English translation, study and glossaries of ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ’s (d. c. 1060 CE) important work on apparent death; an appendix moreover provides the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of ʿUbaidallāh’s lost Greek Vorlage.

Oliver Kahl

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