Minima Onomastica Graeca Alpharabia: Notes on the Treatise "Tafsir Asma Al-Hukama"

Autor

  • Mostafa Younesie Independent researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.24.08

Słowa kluczowe:

Platon, Al-Farabi, onomastyka, etymologia, filologia, hologram

Abstrakt

One of the treatises attributed to the scholar and philosopher al-Farabi is the fascinating single- page manuscript entitled tafsir asma al-hukama, a small document containing a shorthand inventory of fourteen Greek names. Although the authenticity of the attribution is still debated, the treatise itself demonstrates that its author had a strong interest in the interplay of philology and philosophy – a theme that first appears in a remarkable passage in Plato’s Politeia, namely Book IX, 582e. This paper therefore will examine the nature of the tafsir asma al-hukama, especially with regard to the title, which I leave untranslated until the last part of the paper, since the exact meaning of the words in the title forms a major part of my argument. Although the tafsir asma al-hukama is seemingly a very minor text, I believe that it represents a fascinating moment in the history of the dialogue between philology and philosophy. The result of my examination, then, will be a kind of maxima in minimis or hologram on a minor scale. I shall begin with a discussion of the importance of ism in al-Farabi.

Biogram autora

Mostafa Younesie - Independent researcher

Mostafa Younesie – an independent scholar (Ph.D.), working on the classical Greek philosophy of “speech” and “name” based on the ideas of main Greek thinkers including both philosophers and non-philosophers.

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2021-12-28

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Younesie, M. (2021). Minima Onomastica Graeca Alpharabia: Notes on the Treatise "Tafsir Asma Al-Hukama". Collectanea Philologica, (24), 127–140. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.24.08