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This volume introduces ʿAlī b. ʿUbayda al-Rayḥānī (d. 219/834), one of the central figures in the transmission of classical Greek and Persian wisdom into Arabic. It offers an edition, translation, and evaluation of his book Jawāhir al-kilam , one of the oldest collections of proverbial wisdom and moralia in Arabic, as well as other remaining pieces of his works.
The first part of the book surveys the content of his more than sixty books and suggests that among his translations from Middle Persian into Arabic were the Sindbād-nāma and Bilawhar wa-Budhāsf. Moreover, he emerges as the author of the famous al-Adab al-ṣaghīr heretofore wrongly attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffa‘.
The second part contains the Arabic texts and translations as well as a rich documentation of their sources and their further transmission.
The first part of the book surveys the content of his more than sixty books and suggests that among his translations from Middle Persian into Arabic were the Sindbād-nāma and Bilawhar wa-Budhāsf. Moreover, he emerges as the author of the famous al-Adab al-ṣaghīr heretofore wrongly attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffa‘.
The second part contains the Arabic texts and translations as well as a rich documentation of their sources and their further transmission.
Price: $539.00
Pages: 378
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
29 November 2006
ISBN: 9789004151680
Format: Hardcover
Awarded the World Prize for the Book of the Year in the field in of Iranian studies by the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2009.
We should be grateful for all the information that has been put at our disposal about al-Rayhani and the literary context that he formed part of. Remke Kruk in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXVI 5-6
We should be grateful for all the information that has been put at our disposal about al-Rayhani and the literary context that he formed part of. Remke Kruk in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXVI 5-6
Mohsen Zakeri, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, is affiliated with the University of Frankfurt. He has published extensively on early Islamic history and literature including Sasanid Soldiers in Early Muslim Society (Wiesbaden, 1995).