{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"548","_score":null,"_source":{"id":548,"authors_free":[{"id":695,"entry_id":548,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":815,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Amos Bertolacci","free_first_name":"Amos","free_last_name":"Bertolacci","norm_person":{"id":815,"first_name":"Amos","last_name":"Bertolacci","full_name":"Amos Bertolacci","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/156504006","viaf_url":"https:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/61846437","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Amos Bertolacci"}}],"entry_title":"On the Arabic Translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics","title_transcript":null,"title_translation":null,"main_title":{"title":"On the Arabic Translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics"},"abstract":"The article aims at providing a comprehensive account of the process of translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics into Arabic during the Middle Ages. It consists of four sections. In the first three, the historical sources regarding the translations are taken into account. Section 1 offers a new interpretation of the available testimonia, and, on their basis, determines more precisely the original extent of the two major Arabic translations of the Metaphysics (by Us\u1e6d\u0101\u1e6f and Is\u1e25\u0101q ibn \u1e24unayn). Section 2 surveys the extant translations themselves. Section 3 focuses on the translation of one of the books of the Metaphysics (A), and argues for the existence of an Arabic version of this book different from the extant one, as attested by its quotations in Avicenna and al-Shahrast\u0101n\u012b. The fourth section, finally, reconsiders the data gathered in the previous three sections: the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics are divided into three consecutive but distinct phases (9th century; first half of 10th century; second half of the 10th century-beginning of the 11th century), and the main features of each of these phases are indicated.","btype":3,"date":"2005","language":"English","online_url":null,"doi_url":null,"ti_url":null,"categories":[{"id":31,"category_name":"Metaphysics","link":"bib?categories[]=Metaphysics"},{"id":21,"category_name":"Aristotle","link":"bib?categories[]=Aristotle"}],"authors":[{"id":815,"full_name":"Amos Bertolacci","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":548,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Arabic Sciences and Philosophy","volume":"15","issue":null,"pages":"241\u2013275"}},"sort":["On the Arabic Translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics"]}