al-Juzdschani

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Abu Ubaid Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad al-Juzdschani (short according to DMG: Abū ʿUbaid al- Ǧuzǧānī ), also Obeid-e Djusyani and other variants (born around 980; died after 1037, Latinized Sorsanus , by Zedler Arsanus ; accession GND : ʿAbd-al-Wāḥid Ǧuzǧānī) was a Persian doctor, astronomer and mathematician and both a student and a biographer of Avicennas .

Life

Al-Juzdschani ("the one from Juzdschan") came from the East Persian Juzdschan in what is now Afghanistan, heard about "Master Avicenna" there, came to Gorgan on the Caspian Sea for an unknown reason , where he met the master and became a student of Avicenna. He accompanied him to Rey , Hamadan and finally to Isfahan , where he worked with him until his death. His biography of Avicennas, which supposedly links up with and continues an autobiographical work by Avicenna, is still the most important source on Avicenna's life.

Short, only a few lines of biographical information on the basis of this biography was circulating in the Latin Avicenna editions since the beginning of the 16th century. When an extensive Arabic manuscript of the text was found in the estate of Andrea Alpago , Niccolò Massa had it translated into Italian ("vulgari sermone") by an Arabic interpreter named Marcus Fadella, who was apparently baptized for Venetian merchants, and produced his own based on this template Latin translation which has been regularly added to the Latin editions of Avicenna's Canon medicinae as Vita (ipsius) Avicennae ex Sorsano Arabe ejus discipulo since the great Avicenna edition by Rinius (1556) .

As editor of Avicenna's book of recovery , he wrote the foreword, in which he gives further biographical information about his teacher.

reception

Noah Gordon has described in his novel The Medicus al-Juzdschani work at the side of his great teacher Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). Gilbert Sinoué told the life of Ibn Sina in his novel The Road to Isfahan in 1989 based on the writings of his pupil al-Juzjanis.

Translations

  • Soheil M. Afnan (Ed.): Avicenna: his life and works. Allen & Unwin, London 1958.
  • William E. Gohlman (Ed.): The life of Ibn Sina: a critical edition and annotated translation . State University of New York Press, Albany (NY) 1974, ISBN 0-87395-226-X
  • Konrad Goehl : The Vita Avicennae of Sorsanus or al-Jusadschani, Latin and German. In: Konrad Goehl and Johannes Gottfried Mayer (eds.): Editions and studies on Latin and German specialist prose of the Middle Ages: Festgabe für Gundolf Keil. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1851-6 (= Texts and Knowledge, Volume 3), pp. 317–337
  • Miguel Cruz Hernández (Ed.): La vida de Avicena como introducción a su pensamiento . Anthema, Salamanca 1997, ISBN 84-922437-2-4 .

literature

  • Jorit Wintjes : Introduction. In: Konrad Goehl : Avicenna and its presentation of the medicinal effects. With an introduction by Jorit Wintjes. Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-86888-078-6 , pp. 5–27, here: pp. 10–18.
  • George Saliba : Ibn Sīnā and Abū ʿUbayd al-Jūzjānī: The Problem of the Ptolemaic Equant. In: Journal for the History of Arabic Science. Volume 4, 1980, pp. 376-403.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Avicenna. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 2, Leipzig 1732, column 2198.
  2. ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 32.
  3. ^ Gotthard Strohmaier: Avicenna. 1999, p. 32.
  4. ↑ Dt. by Stefan Linster, (Knaur TB) Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-63014-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Juzdschani, al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juzdschani, Abu Ubaid Abd al-Wahid al-Juzjani al-; Abu Ubaid Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad al-Juzjani; Sorsanus (Latinized); Arsanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian doctor, student and biographer of Avicennas
DATE OF BIRTH around 980
DATE OF DEATH after 1037