{"product_id":"9780792325871","title":"Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān and his Kitāb al-Ahjār (Book of Stones)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān and his Kitāb al-Ahjār (Book of Stones)\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHaq, Syed Nomanul\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eJabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the  reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has  exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only  the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the  grand \u003cem\u003ecorpus\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eJabirianum\u003c\/em\u003e which poses a serious scholarly  challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those  obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains. \u003cbr\u003e  This book, which marks the first full-scale study of Jabir ever  to be published in the English language, takes up both challenges. The  author begins by critically reexamining the historical foundations of  the prevalent view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an  8th-century individual, but that of several generations of  Shi'i authors belonging to the following century and  later. Tentatively concluding that this view is problematic, the  author, therefore, infers that its methodological implications are  also problematic. Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the  book takes up the second challenge, namely that of a substantive  analysis and explication of a Jabirian discourse, the  \u003cem\u003eBook of  Stones\u003c\/em\u003e. Here explicating Jabir's notions of substance and  qualities, analyzing his ontological theory of language and unraveling  the metaphysics of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the  doctrinal context of the  \u003cem\u003eStones\u003c\/em\u003e and expounds its central theme.  He then presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial  selection of the text of the  \u003cem\u003eStones\u003c\/em\u003e, based on all available  manuscripts. \u003cbr\u003e  This critical edition has been translated in its entirety and is  provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual notes -- another  pioneering feature of this book: for this is the first English  translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print after a whole  century. An outstanding contribution is that it announces and presents  an exciting textual discovery: the author has found in the  \u003cem\u003eStones\u003c\/em\u003e a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of part of  Aristotle's \u003cem\u003eCategories\u003c\/em\u003e. Given that we have so far known of only  one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of the  Greek text, Haq's  discovery gives this book an historical importance.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1993-12-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792325871\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-1898-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 229cm x152cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 284\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378509242508,"sku":"9780792325871","price":224.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792325871.jpg?v=1772024334","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792325871","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}