De animalibus avicenna biography
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De animalibus avicenna biography
Kitāb al-Hayawān
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The Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (Arabic: كتاب الحيوان, lit. 'The Book of Animals') is an Arabic translation of treatises (Arabic: مقالات, maqālāt) of Aristotle's:
Historia Animalium: treatises 1–10;
De Partibus Animalium: treatises 11–14;
De Generatione Animalium: treatises 15–19.
Medieval Arabic tradition ascribes the translation to Yahya Ibn al-Batriq, but contemporary scholarship does not support this attribution. This Arabic version was the source for the Latin translation De Animalibus by Michael Scot[1] in Toledo before 1217.[2] Several complete manuscript versions exist in Leiden, London, and Tehran,[3] but the text has been edited in separate volumes corresponding to the three Aristotelian sources.
The Egyptian existentialist philosopher Abdel Rahman Badawi edited Treatises 1–10 (Historia Animalium) as Ṭibā‘ al-Ḥayawān[4] and Treatises 11–14 (De Partibus Animalium) as