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Chapter 4 - Arabic Terms in Byzantine Materia Medica

Oral and Textual Transmission

from Part I - Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

By
Maria Mavroudi
Edited by
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos  and
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Affiliation:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Affiliation:
University of Cyprus
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Summary

This chapter argues that our understanding of Byzantine pharmacological practice is obscured by the considerably late date of the pertinent surviving manuscripts. It explains the introduction of Arabic terminology in Byzantine pharmacological practice as one among many examples of introducing and eventually domesticating foreign terms since antiquity, including the absorption of Greek terms in medieval Arabic pharmacology. In every case, the transmission of pharmacological knowledge occurred through both written and oral channels that were expressed in more than one language. This chapter also discusses a glossary of Arabic botanical terms that appears in several Byzantine medical manuscripts. It shows that the glossary was collected more than once from the same widely circulating Greek text, the Byzantine translation of the famous medical treatise by Ibn al-Jazzār, known in Greek as the Ephodia. It concludes by arguing that, instead of contrasting ancient Greek, Arabic, and Byzantine science, it is more productive to investigate all three in order to understand their shared goals, methods of research, and ways of dissemination.

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Byzantine medicineIslamicate medicineByzantine pharmacologyByzantine lexicographyGreek manuscriptsArabic manuscriptsDioscoridesIbn al-JazzārEphodiaZād al-musāfir
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Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean
Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge
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