Journal of Research on History of Medicine

Journal of Research on History of Medicine

The Turkish Redaction of ʿAlāʾī Maghribī’s Taqwīm al-ʾAdwīyah: A Comparative Study with the Arabic Original and Persian Redaction

Document Type : Conference Paper

Authors
Younes Karamati 1
Hoda Oyarhoseyn 2
1 Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Institute for the History of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.30476/rhm.2025.109065.1384
Abstract
Manuscript 2021 of the Şehid Ali Paşa collection, Süleymaniye Library, contains a Turkish redaction of the ʿAlāʾī Maghribī’s tabular pharmacological work, Taqwīm al-’Adwīyah (12th century AD). The Arabic original also has a Persian redaction. In both translations, the tables are a transposed version of the original ones (rows as columns and vice versa). In the Turkish redaction, the entries are also arranged in full alphabetical order instead of the Abjad order of the original/Persian versions. However, the anonymous Turkish redactor, unlike the anonymous Persian one, did not add/eliminate  any entries to/from the original. The Turkish translator has only included the secondary entries (Chapter 4 of the original), among the main entries, and has added the Turkish names in the row line in some cases, while the Persian translator has added some material to the content of the tables.
Keywords
Gene Library
Names
Northern Africa
Tabular pharmacological works
ʿAlāʾī Maghribī
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  2. Karamati, Y., and Oyarhoseyn, H., 2022. Persian Redaction of Taqwīm al-Adwīya of ʿAlaʾī Maghribī and Indian Names of Medicaments Added by Its Anonymous Redactor. Presented at the Common Heritage of Iran and India: Manuscript: Capacities and Challenges (ICCHI 2022), Tehran. [in Persian]
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Journal of Research on History of Medicine
Volume 14, Suppl. 1
The 2nd History of Medicine Meeting: Entangled Histories: Contribution of Iran and Türkiye to the Development of Medical Sciences; 2025 Oct 7-10; Shiraz, Iran
October 2025
Pages 129-132