Elaine van Dalen

@elainevdalen

Assistant Professor Classical Islamic Studies . Graeco-Arabic philology, history of classical Islamic medicine & science. Tweets my own.

Manhattan, NY
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2014.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    19. velj 2019.

    Al-Ghazalī: no wine means no wine Ibn Sīnā: no wine for pleasure but as medicine it's fine Ibn al-Nafīs: when you have a drinking party, wear your best clothes, invite your intimate friends and hold it at a place with a beautiful view, decorated with flowers

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  2. 5. velj

    Speaking of bones: During a famine in Egypt in 597/1200, the physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī examined over 2000 skeletons. He discovered that the lower jaw consisted of one bone, rather than two bones connected at the chin, as Galen had described it before.

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  3. 3. velj

    “Music in the medieval Islamic world was categorized as a branch of mathematical science, alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy” Interview with Sadegh Ansari on his dissertation, “Music as Science: Pythagoras in Baghdad” (Columbia MS or 306)

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    2. velj

    This is one of my favourite stories of all time: the War between the Owls and Crows from proto-Machiavellian Ibn al-Muqaffa's () Kalila wa Dimna. A dark tale on deception and intrigue. I discussed it with in 2017 here:

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  5. 2. velj

    For Sunday here is an illustration from Kalila wa-dimna: The crow speaking to the king of the owls Met 1981.373.69. Date: 18th century

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    31. sij

    musings: when the 14th century Egyptian encyclopedist al-Nuwayrī wrote about "the island of England" (Inqilṭira), he thought it was even closer to Europe than it actually is! "Between this island and the continent is 12 miles" (from 's translation)

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    31. sij

    Ok, and convinced me: Jahangir ROCKS the ! IDs in the thread!

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  8. 31. sij
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  9. 30. sij

    The versatility of Ibn Sina

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  10. 30. sij

    I *love* when students share well developed insights in class. But I also stress to them that class isn’t an oral exam and that they can serve the discussion by sharing their unfinished thoughts, confusion & questions. These often help deepen the understanding of the whole group.

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  11. 29. sij

    Mixtures of honey and water were prescribed to "cure weakness and loss of appetite"

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  12. 29. sij

    Preparation of medicine from water and honey. Patient is waiting on the left. An illustration by the 13th-century calligrapher ʿAbdullah Ibn al-Faḍl in an Arabic translation of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica ms is dated 621 AH (1237 AD) MMA 57.51.21

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  13. 29. sij

    Already managed to briefly bring up the Islamic concept of niyya when discussing Kant’s Groundwork and the good will in class this week

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  14. 29. sij

    Will definitely incorporate this in my class on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations next week

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  15. 28. sij

    As an undergraduate I took a mandatory Islamic manuscript class where we had to transcribe folios from Arabic manuscripts each week.. a great exercise. It was taught by prof Witkam. After that I started using mss myself during PhD research

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  16. 28. sij

    If you’re a scholar working with manuscripts, when did you first learn to do so? As an undergraduate, during PhD, or after?

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    28. sij

    New paper by Remke Kruk: THE SADDEST BEAST? NOTES ON THE PIG IN ARABIC CULTURE

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  18. 28. sij

    It is actually a very exciting seminar on the social, material, and reception history of texts in the Islamic world.

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  19. 28. sij

    I was mistaken about the time of the graduate seminar I teach this semester and actually *missed* the first session today. Of my own class. I hope your semester is going better.

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  20. 27. sij

    (Peter Pormann writes about the meaning of 'waram' in his monograph, The Oriental Tradition of Paul of Aegina, p.25.)

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  21. 27. sij

    Finally, some Arab physicians, such as Ibn al-Quff and Al-Manāwī, believed that leprosy (ǧuḏām), was a form of cancer.

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