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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463640803321

Autore

Berzin Gabriella

Titolo

Avicenna in medieval Hebrew translation : Todros Todrosi's translation of Kitab al-najat, on psychology and metaphysics / / by Gabriella Berzin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : BRILL, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28197-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science : Texts and Studies, , 0169-8729 ; ; Volume 91

Disciplina

181/.5

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - History - To 1500

Arabic literature - 750-1258

Hebrew literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Psychology

Metaphysics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Hebrew Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt (Haẓalat ha-Nefesh), Section Two, Treatise Six: “On the Soul” -- Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Method of Translation: A Study of Language and Translation Techniques -- Shem Ṭov ben Joseph Ibn Falaquera and Ṭodros Ṭodrosi: Two Translators of a Similar Text -- Conclusion -- Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Incomplete Hebrew Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt, III -- Glossaries -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros Ṭodrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Ṭodrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic



edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Ṭodrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will help enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission and impact of Avicenna’s philosophy.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910576882103321

Autore

Zamora-Camacho Francisco Javier

Titolo

Evolutionary Ecology of Lizards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (88 p.)

Soggetti

Animals and society

Biology, life sciences

Research and information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Except for latitudinal and elevational extremes, lizards range across a vast variety of biotopes worldwide, including environments as disparate as deserts, prairies, temperate woodlands, rainforests, or anthropic habitats. Although most species thrive on the ground, numerous lizards are fossorial, arboreal, and even aquatic, found in either fresh- or seawater. With lizards being ectotherms, accurate thermoregulation and other physiological adaptations are in most cases fundamental for their survival in such a variety of habitats. Moreover, lizard coloration may mediate thermoregulation, reproduction, and social status, among others. Lizards have also evolved some unusual antipredator adaptations, such as tail autotomy. Consequently, the astonishing morphological, ecological, and functional diversity of lizards results from extremely intense selective pressures, oftentimes opposing, many



of whose interrelationships have yet to be disentangled. This Special Issue provides the international scientific community with an integrative meeting point to discuss and synthesize the current knowledge on the evolutionary pathways and mechanisms that led to today's lizards.