"Cave hic", marginal warnings in Latin translations of Arabic philosophy: a case study of Algazel
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[1] Samford University
Samford University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Manuscripta, ISSN 0025-2603, ISSN-e 2031-0226, Vol. 61, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 72-104
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Condemnations in the thirteenth century forbad the teaching of many Aristotelian doctrines at universities and heightened suspicion around the works of Aristotle and Arabic philosophers that had been translated into Latin. Yet for all the effort to curtail the teaching and discussion of these doctrines, condemnations of Aristotelian philosophy were largely silent about how scholars should treat these errors when they encountered them in the manuscripts they read. This study looks at a group of concerned readers who echoed the spirit of the condemnations in several manuscripts that contained works of Aristotelian philosophy, specifically the Latin translation of al-Ghazali’s Maqāṣid al-falāsifa. These readers left a variety of warnings in the margins of this translation, highlighting the errors for future readers to discover. The goal of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the arguments marked by these annotators and the errors listed in the condemnations in order to understand these readers’ responses. This study demonstrates that readers shared the concerns of thirteenth-century condemnations, particularly surrounding the theory of emanation, and voiced them alongside theologically-dangerous passages of the Latin al-Ghazali, yet did not rely exclusively upon the condemnations to come to these conclusions. These annotators did not prevent readers from engaging with the text and its errors, but instead they marked their manuscripts as a dialogue between the text, ideological conformity, and readers present and future.
