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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2020
      November 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108583107
      9781108499484
      9781108730730
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108583107
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 258 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 258 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy
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    This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplinary norms. It argues that Galen appealed to the entangled cosmological scheme of the dialogue, where different relations connect the body, soul, and cosmos, to expand the boundaries of medicine in his pursuit for epistemic authority – the right to define and explain natural reality. Aileen Das situates Galen's work on disciplinary boundaries in the context of medicine's ancient rivalry with philosophy, whose professionals were long seen as superior knowers of the cosmos vis-à-vis doctors. Her case studies show how Galen and four of the most important Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers in the Arabic Middle Ages creatively interpreted key doctrines from the Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy as well as their own intellectual identities.

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    Winner, 2021 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies

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