The 'Indian Books' in ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban al-Ṭabarī's Paradise of Wisdom.A new Arabic edition, first-time English translation, lore-historical introduction and multilingual glossaries

Ê¿Alą ibn Sahl Rabban al-áabarą 的《智慧天堂》中的“印度书籍”。新的阿拉伯语版本、首次英文翻译、传说历史介绍和多语言术语表

• 批准号: 457223417
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stefan Weninger
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/457223417?language=en
• 关键词: Indian; Books; Al; ibn; Sahl

This project centres around a unique Arabic treatise that was appended by the Persian scholar ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban al-Ṭabarī to his medico-philosophical chef-d'œuvre, completed in the year 850 AD. The main work bears the title Paradise of Wisdom, the appendix is headed by "Extracts from the Books of the Indians". In this appended treatise, the author explains to a largely Muslim audience the basic tenets of Ayurvedic medicine, and presents its salient features summarily and systematically. His expositions are based on a number of relevant Sanskrit writings that had been translated into Arabic about two generations earlier. Ṭabarī does not advocate the teachings of the Indians, but rather confines himself to a faithful rendition of their ideas, thereby displaying a kind of neutral distance which we today would call 'objective' and which in a medieval context might rightly be regarded as exceptional. Ṭabarī's treatise, conceived during a formative period in Arabo-Islamic scientific history, is in all respects a highly important document which, moreover, had no literary precursors nor indeed did it engender similar investigations in its wake. For our understanding of Arabic scientific history, Ṭabarī's treatise represents a veritable treasure chest of otherwise unattainable information, a source both central and neglected. For the field of Indology, too, we can expect to gain new and significant insights: the Arabic translations used by Ṭabarī when writing his treatise proceeded on their part from Sanskrit versions that predate all currently available Ayurvedic manuscripts by nearly a thousand years. The so-called "Indian Books" of Ṭabarī — famous but hardly studied among Arabists, almost unknown among Indologists — were edited in 1928, together with the bulk of the work, and partially translated into German in the 1950s. The edition of the Arabic text, however, is philologically unusable, and the partial German translation, which is based exclusively on this deficient edition, is equally unreliable. We are therefore proposing to prepare a new, critical edition of the Arabic text, drawing on all manuscript witnesses that are now known; on the basis of a newly established text, we will then provide an annotated English translation; the material suchwise acquired will be evaluated and interpreted in an introductory study, focusing first and foremost on questions related to the intricacies of textual transmission; finally, we envisage to compile multilingual glossaries (Arabic‒Sanskrit‒English), and thereby to give access to all philologically relevant terms. The results of this research project will be published in the form of a monograph.

该项目以波斯学者 ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban al-Ṭabarī 附加在他于公元 850 年完成的医学哲学巨著中的一篇独特的阿拉伯论文为中心。主要著作的标题为《智慧天堂》。附录的标题是“印第安人书籍摘录”，在这篇附加论文中，作者向大部分穆斯林读者解释了印度教的基本原则。塔巴里（Ṭabarī）并不提倡印度人的教义，而是以一些相关的梵文著作为基础，概括而系统地阐述了阿育吠陀医学的特点。忠实地再现了他们的思想，表现出一种我们今天称之为“客观”的中立距离，在中世纪的背景下，这种距离可能被正确地视为例外。塔巴里的论文是在阿拉伯-伊斯兰科学史的形成时期构思的，从各个方面来说都是一篇非常重要的文献，而且它没有任何文学先驱，也确实没有为我们理解阿拉伯科学史而引发类似的研究。塔巴里的论文代表了一个名副其实的宝库，其中蕴藏着原本无法获得的信息，对于印度学领域来说，这是一个既重要又被忽视的来源。重要的见解：塔巴里在撰写论文时使用的阿拉伯语译本是从梵文版本开始的，这些版本比现有的所有阿育吠陀手稿早了近一千年。 ，在印度学家中几乎不为人所知——于 1928 年与大部分作品一起编辑，并在 20 世纪 50 年代部分翻译成德语。然而，该文本在语言学上无法使用，并且完全基于这个有缺陷的版本的部分德语翻译同样不可靠，因此我们建议利用所有手稿证人准备一个新的、批判性的阿拉伯文本版本。现在已知；基于新建立的文本，我们将提供带注释的英文翻译；将在介绍性研究中对由此获得的材料进行评估和解释，首先关注与文本传输的复杂性相关的问题；最后，我们计划编制多语言词汇表（阿拉伯语-梵语-英语），从而提供所有语言学相关术语。该研究项目的结果将以专着的形式出版。