{"title":"Following the Steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ in the Ottoman World. II: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī and His tashjīr Diagrams of Science","authors":"Godefroid de Callataÿ","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15055","url":null,"abstract":"In various places of his extensive production the fifteenth-century littérateur and occultist ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī (d. 858/1454) presents a classification of the sciences in the form of a tree. In this paper we discuss four variants of this ‘tashjīr’ representation from four different works of al-Bisṭāmī as they have come down to us in manuscripts. We compare these diagrams with one another, discuss their respective textual environments, and bring al-Bisṭāmī’s arboreal representations in line with the classification of the sciences of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’, their obvious source. By putting this tashjīr representation side by side with other examples of tree-shaped science classifications inside and outside the Islamic world, we seek to better assess al-Bisṭāmī’s original contribution in turning the Ikhwān’s system of organizing knowledge into a tree-shaped diagram.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131365390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endlich! Zum Erscheinen der kritischen Edition der lateinischen Fassung des Wegweisers für die Verirrten von Maimonides","authors":"R. Imbach","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15244","url":null,"abstract":"Review article of: \u0000Moses Maimonides, Dux neutrorum vel dubiorum, pt. I, ed. Diana Di Segni, Peeters, Leuven 2019 (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, Bibliotheca, 17, 1).","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128504637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La guerra privada: ¿Origen y fin del estado Moderno? De la estatización de lo bélico a la despersonificación del jus belli","authors":"Griselda Gaiada","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15191","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo se dirige a examinar desde lo filosófico la relación entre el concepto de estatalidad, jus belli y guerra privada a partir de la distinción de dos momentos analíticos. El primero de ellos se centra en la evolución de los conceptos filosóficos que hicieron posible la aparición del Estado soberano moderno; el segundo en el proceso de crisis que tales conceptos parecen sufrir en la actualidad. En ambos casos, la guerra privada está en el centro de la cuestión. Más precisamente, sostenemos la tesis de que la guerra privada está en el origen de la magnitud estatal y de los signos actuales de su declinación. Si el Estado moderno representó en esencia lo que llamaremos una “personificación del jus belli”, el reverso de esta tesis deviene un paso obligado en una reflexión que no sabría ceñirse al solo interés histórico dentro de su campo disciplinario. A este respecto, nuestro trabajo se mueve fundamentalmente bajo dos interrogantes, a saber: ¿el proceso de des-personificación del jus belli podría conducir a la desaparición de las diferenciaciones forjadas durante más de tres siglos? ¿La “nueva condotta” puede ser interpretada como un intento de simetrización de lo bélico ante actores que practican la guerra sin responder a una lógica estatal? \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124128630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Grosseteste’s Translation of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo: Tracking down a Second Manuscript and the Greek Model","authors":"P. Beullens","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15273","url":null,"abstract":"The note surveys the reception history of Robert Grosseteste's Latin translation of Aristotle's De Caelo and of Simplicius's commentary on the same treatise. It presents the analysis of previously unnoticed fragments from a second manuscript of the translation. Their discovery necessitates the revision of earlier ideas about the limited dissemination of the text. The note also confirms a neglected hypothesis about the Greek model that Grosseteste used for his translation. A late-15th-century manuscript must be considered a direct copy of Grosseteste's lost Greek codex.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124190625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Amiroutzes, The Philosopher, or On Faith, edited and translated by John Monfasani, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2021 (Graphai, 1), 256 PP., ISBN: 9780884024859","authors":"Dominique O'Meara","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15282","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: \u0000George Amiroutzes, The Philosopher, or On Faith, edited and translated by John Monfasani, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2021 (Graphai, 1), 256 PP., ISBN: 9780884024859.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129496389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« Mahumetani sinenses velint de lege christiana et mahumetana disserere »: Una nota sobre el Brevis apparatus et modus agendi ac disputandi cum mahumetanis de Carlo de Castorano (1673–1755)","authors":"Alexander Fidora","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.14363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.14363","url":null,"abstract":"Review article of: \u0000P. Carolus Horatii a Castorano O.F.M., Brevis apparatus et modus agendi ac disputandi cum mahumetanis et opuscula breviora, ed. José Martínez Gázquez, Nàdia Petrus Pons, Antonianum, Roma 2021.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132824312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Season for the Study of Byzantine Theories of Vision","authors":"Roberto Zambiasi","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.14372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.14372","url":null,"abstract":"The article reviews in an extended and critical way Roland Betancourt, Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018. After putting the book in the context of contemporary scholarship on Byzantine theories of vision, the article sketches the structure and contents of the book (together with its methodology), before moving on to a critical discussion of the interpretation of some important Late Antique and Byzantine theories of vision advanced by Betancourt, especially that of Galen, together with its reception in Nemesios of Emesa and in the later Byzantine world (focusing on its relation with the Eucharistic theology and Christology of Nicholas Kabasilas). The article ends by stressing the value of Betancourt's book insofar as the wealth of material it collects will allow scholars to deepen and enrich the study of Byzantine theories of vision. ","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133469089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jean-Claude Schmitt, Le cloître des ombres, suivi de la traduction française du Livre des révélations de Richalm de Schöntal avec la collaboration de Gisèle Besson, Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2021 (Bibliothèque des histoires), 469 PP., ISBN: 9782072931468","authors":"Carla Casagrande","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15101","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: \u0000Jean-Claude Schmitt, Le cloître des ombres, suivi de la traduction française du Livre des révélations de Richalm de Schöntal avec la collaboration de Gisèle Besson, Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2021 (Bibliothèque des histoires), 469 PP., ISBN: 9782072931468.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132228814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domingo Báñez (1528-1604) and the novus philosophus: Cajetan, Franciscus Toletus, and the (In)equality of Human Rational Souls","authors":"Russell L. Friedman","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15643","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes its point of departure in a puzzle in the little studied De generatione et corruptione commentary by Spanish Dominican Domingo Báñez, first published in 1585. Specifically, five times in the work, Báñez takes as his opponent an otherwise unidentified novus philosophus or novus author. Using parallel texts, I show Báñez’s novus philosophus was none other than the Jesuit Franciscus Toletus. I then trace some of the background to one of the issues on which Báñez criticizes Franciscus: the issue of whether or not human rational souls are equal to one another in terms of substantial perfection. The central place of Thomas de Vio Cajetan in the dispute between the Dominican and the Jesuit quickly becomes clear. In an appendix, I offer complete question lists of the relevant natural philosophical works by Franciscus from which Báñez quotes or paraphrases, i.e. Franciscus’s Physics, De generatione, and De anima commentaries.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122771513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karla Mallette, Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean, The University of Chicago, Chicago – London 2021, 240 PP., ISBN: 9780226795904","authors":"Charles Burnett","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15283","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: \u0000Karla Mallette, Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean, The University of Chicago, Chicago – London 2021, 240 PP., ISBN: 9780226795904.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128137566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}