Speaker:
- Emmanuel Beaujard
Fellow MIAS - Recipient of a scholarship awarded in collaboration with the General Delegation of Wallonia-Brussels in Spain and Wallonia-Brussels International
Casa de Velázquez
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Fig. Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. arabe 2817. Paris, France.
The veterinary texts of al-Andalus have, to date, received little scholarly attention compared with those of their Abbasid and Mamluk counterparts, which have recently been the subject of editions and translations. The works of the scholars Ibn al-ʿAwwām (Seville, 12th century), Ibn Arqam al-Numayrī (Granada, 13th century), Ibn Ğuzayy (Granada, late 14th century) and Ibn Huḏayl al-Fazārī (Granada, late 14th century) nevertheless bear witness to a flourishing of hippological and veterinary production in al-Andalus, during the era of the Almohad sovereigns and the Nasrid sultans.
Our research seeks to investigate the content of these treatises, most of which remain unpublished, and to situate the hippiatric production of al-Andalus within the broader framework of the transmission of Greek and Abbasid veterinary knowledge to the Muslim West. In this seminar, we shall emphasise the relative obscurity of the veterinary texts of al-Andalus at the present time, as well as the need to provide access to these sources, which still lie dormant, for the most part, in the libraries of the Spanish capital.
