De Quelques hommes illustres chez les Arabes et les Hébreux. Grèce and a lover of ancient

and a lover of ancient languages

the first of the “Corpus” series

young doctoral or post-doctoral researchers

de monnaies

he left behind a wealth of work

De Quelques hommes illustres chez les Arabes et les Hébreux. Grèce and a lover of ancientLatin Europe knew little of Rhazes, Avicenna, or Averroes other than the lucubrations that had been elaborated about them, such as having them all live together in Muslim Spain and making Averroes the poisoner of Avicenna out of jealousy. This marks the fundamental difference between the Greco Arabic translation movement and its Arab Latin corollary. While the former was concerned with translating, from Greek scholarly literature, biographical