Format:
1 online resource (284 pages)
ISBN:
9780271077963
Content:
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE: The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews -- TWO: Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I Heard": A Case Study in Byzantine Jews' Reception of Spanish-Provençal Jewish Philosophical-Scientific Culture -- THREE: Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites: Two Theories and Their Role in Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's Scroll of the Revealer -- FOUR: Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East: From Mosul to Venice? -- FIVE: Remembering, Knowing, Imagining: Approaches to the Topic of Memory in Medieval Islamic Culture -- SIX: Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean -- SEVEN: The Wheat and the Barley: Feminine (in)Fertility in Eve and Adam Narratives in Islam -- EIGHT: Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria: The Book of Shadows and the History of the Early Ghulat -- NINE: Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts: The Reception of Greek Uroscopic Texts in the Hebrew Book of Remedies Attributed to Asaf -- TEN: The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy -- ELEVEN: New Medicine and the Ḥikmet-i Ṭabīʿiyye Problematic in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED -- INDEX -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780271071091
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780271071091
Language:
English
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