Aristotle's Meteorology and its reception in the Arab world : : with an edition and translation of Ibn Suwār's Treatise on meteorological phenomena and Ibn Bājja's Commentary on the Meteorology / / by Paul Lettinck.

• Superior document: Aristoteles Semitico-latinus ; Volume 10
• VerfasserIn: Lettinck, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Koln : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Aristoteles Semitico-latinus ; Volume 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (514 pages)

An account of what Arabic scholars have written, either as commentators or as more independent authors, on the subjects treated in Aristotle's Meteorology , this work investigates how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. For each subject a survey is given of the content of the Greek commentaries (by Alexander, Philoponus and Olympiodorus) as well as of a later treatise, ascribed to Olympiodorus and extant only in Arabic. Then, the Arabic version of Ibn al-Bitrīq is investigated; it was one of the sources used by the Arabic writers which are discussed after that: al-Kindī, Ibn Sīnā and later scholars who were inspired by him, Ibn Bājja and Ibn Rušd. Two Arabic treatises on subjects from the Meteorology are edited and translated.