{"title":"A Note on Klb yārh in al-Bīrūnī’s Autobibliography","authors":"Oliver Kahl","doi":"10.1163/15700585-20231684","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short article proposes two possible explanations of the opaque term <em>klb yārh</em> (<styled-content lang=\"ar-Arab\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">كلب ياره</styled-content>), which makes an isolated appearance in the autobibliography of Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. ca. 440/1048). There, it is registered as the title of an otherwise unknown Indian medical work which al-Bīrūnī himself says he translated from Sanskrit into Arabic.</p>","PeriodicalId":8163,"journal":{"name":"Arabica","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arabica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-20231684","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This short article proposes two possible explanations of the opaque term klb yārh (كلب ياره), which makes an isolated appearance in the autobibliography of Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. ca. 440/1048). There, it is registered as the title of an otherwise unknown Indian medical work which al-Bīrūnī himself says he translated from Sanskrit into Arabic.