THE ARABIC COMMENTARIES ON THE HIPPOCRATIC APHORISMS

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THE ARABIC COMMENTARIES ON THE HIPPOCRATIC APHORISMS:
ARABIC LEARNED MEDICAL DISCOURSE
ON WOMEN'S BODIES (9th-15th cent.)
A thesis submitted to The University of Manchester for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
in the Faculty of Humanities
2018
ROSALIND M. BATTEN
SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract 6
Declaration 7
Copyright Statement 8
Abbreviations and Apparatus 9
Acknowledgements 14
The Author 16
Dedication 17
INTRODUCTION 18
0. 1 Preliminaries: The Arabic Commentaries On The Hippocratic Aphorisms 18
0. 2 Literature Review 19
0. 3 The Corpus 28
0. 4 Methodological Framework and Research Questions 37
CHAPTER ONE THE EXEGETICAL DISCOURSE ON APH. 5. 31 40
1. 1 Purpose and Methodology 40
1. 2 The broad social and legal context of the debates on Aph. 5. 31 40
1. 3 Terminology used to denote a pregnancy and failed pregnancy:
isqāt (abortion) and ḥaml (burden) 44
1. 4 Acute diseases and pregnancy in the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition 46
1. 5 The exegesis of Aph. 5. 31 in the Arabic tradition 47
1. 5. 1 Galen (tr. Ḥunayn) 47
1. 5. 2 Stephanos of Athens 50
1. 5. 3 Al-Nīlī 52
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1. 5. 4 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq 54
1. 5. 5 Al-Sinǧārī 60
1. 5. 6 Maimonides 67
1. 5. 7 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī 70
1. 5. 8 Ibn al-Nafīs 75
1. 5. 9 Ibn al-Quff 80
1. 5. 10 Al-Sīwāsī 90
1. 5. 11 Al-Ṭabīb’s Commentary on al-Kīšī’s Summary of the Hippocratic
‘Aphorisms’ 93
1. 5. 12 Al-Kilānī 97
1. 5. 13 Al-Manāwī 101
1. 6 Concluding Remarks 103
CHAPTER TWO THE EXEGETICAL DISCOURSE ON APH. 5. 35 109
2. 1 Scholarly debates relevant to Aph 5. 35 in the Arabic tradition 109
2. 2 The Arabic Commentaries on Aph. 5. 35 116
2. 2. 1 Galen 116
2. 2. 2 Stephanos of Athens 121
2. 2. 3 Al-Nīlī 125
2. 2. 4 Ibn Sīnā 127
2. 2. 5 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣadīq 128
2. 2. 6 Al-Sinǧārī 132
2. 2. 7 Maimonides 137
2. 2. 8 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī 139
2. 2. 9 Ibn al-Nafīs 142
2. 2. 10 Ibn al-Quff 146
2. 2. 11 Al-Sīwāsī 162
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2. 2. 12 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭabīb and al-Kīšī 165
2. 2. 13 Al-Kilānī 167
2. 2. 14 Al-Manāwī 170
2. 3 Concluding Remarks 173
CHAPTER THREE THE EXEGETICAL DISCOURSE ON APH. 5. 48 179
3. 1 The seminal debates and the female contribution to generation 179
3. 2 Key Terminology 186
3. 3 Left-Right Theory 187
3. 4 The Arabic Commentaries on Aph. 5. 48 188
3. 4. 1 Galen 188
3. 4. 2 Stephanos of Athens 192
3. 4. 3 Al-Nīlī 194
3. 4. 4 Ibn Sīnā 197
3. 4. 5 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq 198
3. 4. 6 Al-Sinǧārī 207
3. 4. 7 Maimonides 211
3. 4. 8 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf 214
3. 4. 9 Ibn al-Nafīs 218
3. 4. 10 Ibn al-Quff 222
3. 4. 11 Al-Sīwāsī 234
3. 4. 12 Al-Ṭabīb's Commentary on al-Kīšī's Summary 238
3. 4. 13 Al-Kilānī 245
3. 4. 14 Al-Manāwī 252
3. 5 Concluding Remarks 254
CONCLUSIONS 259
BIBLIOGRAPHY 268
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Word Count 75, 620
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Abstract
This thesis will probe selected Arabic commentary material on the Hippocratic
Aphorisms. The aim is, first, to shed light on the development of Arabic medical
commentary; second, to draw attention to issues of continuity and change in med-
ical ideas and debates; third, to shed light on wider debates about women and
medicine in the medieval world. Due to limitations on space, the main focus is on
the second point.
The sample ofArabic commentary material investigated here relates to Aph.
5. 31, Aph. 5. 35 and Aph. 5. 48. The material is situated within the wider context
of the Islamic scientific commentary genre. TheArabic material is taken from the
preliminary online edition now available due to the culmination of the Project on
the Hippocratic Aphorisms (2012–17) led by Professor Peter E. Pormann at the
University of Manchester.
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Declaration
No portion of the work referred to in the thesis has been submitted in support of
an application for another degree or qualification of this or any other university or
other institute of learning.
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Abbreviations and Apparatus
Aph. [Hippocrates], Aphorisms, Magdelaine (Paris thesis, 1994)
(=L:4:458-610)
B2 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms, MS Petermann II
233 (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)1
C6 Al-Kīšī, Means to Arrive at the Questions about the Aphorisms: MS 1072
Tibb (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
CB1 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MSAr 3802 (Ar-
abic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
CMG Corpus Medicorum Graecorum
DW [Hippocrates], Diseases of Women (=L:8:10-464)
E8 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms, Madrid, Escurial,
MS árabe 877 (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
E10 Al-Manāwī, Facilitating the Understanding of a Commentary on the Aph-
orisms, Madrid, Escurial MS árabe 878
G Al-Sinǧārī, Making it Easy to Arrive at an Explanation of Hippocrates' Aph-
orisms, MS Ar. 1037 (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms
project)
GA Aristotle, Generation of Animals (De Generatione) Peck, Arthur Leslie
(1943) trans. Eng.Aristotle, Generation of Animals (Harvard Massachusetts: Har-
vard University Press).
1. The manuscripts abbreviated in bold are from the collection of manuscripts relat-
ing to the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratric Aphorisms project listed at
http://www.fihrist.org.uk, the online catalogue (fihrist). The metadata cited there
was contributed by Peter Pormann and his team (University of Manchester:
2012-2017).
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Arabic version GA = Brugman and Drossaart Lulofs (eds.) (1971) Aristotle, The
Generation of Animals, the Arabic Translation commonly ascribed to Yaḥyā Ibn
al-Baṭrīq
H Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on HippocraticAphorisms: MSArab. SM 4272
(Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
HA Aristotle, History of Animals (Historia Animalium) Balme, David, M. (ed.
and trans.) (1991) Aristotle, HA, Books VII–X (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press)
Arabic version (HA) Ṭibaʾ al-ḥayawān Badawī (ed.) (1977).
K Kühn (Leipzig 1821-1823) Galeni Opera Omnia, 20 vols., (Leipzig)
L Littré (1839-1961) Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, 10 vols, Paris: Baillières
L5 Ibn al-Quff, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MS Or. 1348 (Arabic
Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
L6 Al-Kilānī, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MS Or. 5939 (Arabic
Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
Ma Al-Kilānī, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MS 37 (Arabic Com-
mentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
M1 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms, MS OL 7785/66
(Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
OX1 Al-Nīlī, AnAbridgement of the Commentary by Galen on theAphorisms of
Hippocrates: MS. Huntington 359 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
P2 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MS arabe 2838
(Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
P3 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MS arabe 2839
(Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
P4 Ibn ʾAbī Ṣādiq, Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms: MS arabe 2840
(Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)