“这门艺术是谁开始的?它从何而来?”镶框一个故事的起源关于炼金术的书ziziphus树最遥远的Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšī已经

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY
C. Braun
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本文探讨了伪经书炼金术专著《最远边界的齐齐弗斯树之书》(Kitāb Sidrat almuntahā)中一个密封框架故事的背景。这篇论文被认为是阿拉伯神秘学领域的一位杰出人物,abybakr b. Waḥshīya(4 /10世纪上半叶)。它是以主人公伊本Waḥshīya和来自伊斯兰西方的炼金术士al- maghrib - al- qamari之间的对话形式写成的。这两个角色之间介绍性对话的最后一部分包括一个关于炼金术起源的框架故事和一个关于发现的传说(Fundlegende),这个故事介绍了宇宙进化论和对嬗变过程的寓言描述。框架故事和发现的传说都充斥着赫尔墨斯图案和从其他希腊和阿拉伯炼金术论文中所知的拓扑。此外,关于炼金术起源的不同流行理论的阐述反映了历史现象,如希腊-阿拉伯语翻译运动和shu ' ūbīya争议。与阿拉伯赫米提卡的文学传统一致,古埃及在这篇论文中作为炼金术的摇篮出现;然而,我认为这不仅仅是文学惯例,这种唤起表达了对古埃及及其幸存的物质文化的真正迷恋。在这方面,鲜为人知的关于隐藏宝藏的阿拉伯书籍类型可能会为常见的赫尔墨斯叙事及其在阿拉伯神秘文学中的流通提供新的线索。
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“¿Quién empezó este arte y de dónde viene?” Una historia enmarcada sobre los orígenes de la alquimia en el Libro del árbol de ziziphus de los más lejanos confines de Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšīya
This paper explores the context of a Hermetic frame story in the pseudepigraphical alchemical treatise The Book of the Ziziphus Tree of the Furthest Boundary (Kitāb Sidrat almuntahā). The treatise is attributed to a prominent figure in the Arabic occult sciences, Abū Bakr b. Waḥshīya (fl. first half of the 4th/10th century). It was written in the form of a dialogue between the protagonist, Ibn Waḥshīya, and an alchemist from the Islamic West, al-Maghribī al-Qamarī. The last section of the introductory dialogue between these two characters consists of a frame story on the origins of alchemy and a legend of discovery (Fundlegende) that introduces a cosmogony and an allegorical depiction of the process of transmutation. Both the frame story and the legend of discovery abound in Hermetic motifs and topoi known from other Greek and Arabic alchemical treatises. The exposition of the different prevailing theories on the beginnings of alchemy reflects, moreover, historical phenomena, such as the Graeco-Arabic translation movement and the shu‘ūbīya controversy. Consistent with the literary tradition of the Arabic Hermetica, Ancient Egypt emerges in this treatise as the cradle of alchemy; however, I suggest that more than merely literary convention, such evocations express a genuine fascination with Ancient Egypt and its surviving material culture. In this respect, the littleknown genre of Arabic books on hidden treasure might shed new light on common Hermetic narratives and their circulation in Arabic occult literature.
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AL-QANTARA
AL-QANTARA Multiple-
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0.50
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16
审稿时长
48 weeks
期刊介绍: Al-Qanṭara inició su publicación en 1980, como continuación de Al-Andalus (1933-1978). Al-Qanṭara está dedicada a la civilización del Islam clásico (hasta el siglo XVII incluido) con especial atención al Occidente islámico. Se publica en forma de dos fascículos anuales de unas 250 páginas cada uno. Una sección monográfica aparece en el segundo fascículo de cada año. La revista sólo solicita contribuciones para las secciones monográficas.
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