Avicenna’s Shifāʾ (Sufficientia): in Defense of Medieval Latin Translators
This article explores the reasons why medieval Latin translators used the term Sufficientia to translate the title of Avicenna’s philosophical work, known in Arabic as al-shifāʾ and did not use instead terms like “healing” or “cure”, which are now frequently used. The article demonstrates that those...
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De Gruyter
2017
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Der Islam
Year: 2017, Volume: 94, Issue: 2, Pages: 423-433 |
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