Ab Bakr al-Rz, Doutes sur Galien

This book provides a critical edition as well as a French translation of the Doubts About Galen , a polemical treatise written by Ab Bakr al-Rz, one of the most innovative clinicians and philosophers of the Arabo-Islamic Middle Ages. His Doubts stand at the cross-roads of metaphysics, natural philosophy and medicine. The edition includes a comprehensive introduction which discusses the treatise' most significant philosophical features.

Auteur

Pauline Koetschet, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Univ., Aix-en-Provence, France.

Résumé

The series *Scientia Graeco-Arabica*is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs it provides access to the topics of inquiry in which ancient science presented itself and developed over time in a continuous tradition between Antiquity and the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.

Languages of publication are English, German, French and Italian.