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Hebrew translationsas,forinstance,inthecaseof theKal-Fus?l(Aphorisms).Afourth
majorwork,theMukktasar?tli-kutubJ?l?nus(selectionsfrom theWorks ofGalen),which
onlysurvives inpart,isnotavailableatall inprint,neitherintheoriginalArabic,norinanytranslation.Ofhissmallertreatisessomehave beenedited,namely,(i)theK.ftal-jim?'
(OnSexualIntercourse)writtenattherequestof the Sultan'Umaribn Nural-D?n,
nephewofSaladin,ofwhichtwoversionsexist,alongerandashorterone4;(2),the Ft
tadb?ral-sihha(OntheRegimenofHealth),writtenin1198attherequestoftheruleral-AfdalNural-D?n'Al?;5(3)theMaq?la?bay?nal-a'r?dwa-al-jaw?b'anh?(OntheCauses
ofSymptoms),written for thesamerulertwoyearslater when his condition didnot
improve;6(4)theSharkasm?'al-uqq?r(CommentaryontheNamesofDrugs);7and(5)
theRis?laf?al-bawas?r(OnHaemorrhoids).8Oneminortreatise,namely,Maq?la?al-rabwi
(On Asthma)isstillunedited andagainonlyavailableinanuncritical editionof the
medieval HebrewtranslationbyS?ssmannMuntner,9andinEnglishand FrenchtranslationsbasedontheHebrew.
Thisunsatisfactorysituationinthefield ofthe textualeditionsof Maimonides'smedical
worksrepeatsitself in thatofthesecondarystudies.Thoughthe numberofsecondarystudies of his medical worksissignificant,noneof themgives,asfarasIknow,adetailedtextualanalysisdealingwiththesourcesandunderlyingtheoreticalconceptions,next to
acritical evaluation ofitscontentsinthelightof relevant Islamic medicalworks. TheonlyexceptionsI knowofarethe detailedanalysiscontainedin the edition ofhisMaq?la?bay?n
al-a'r?dwa-al-jaw?b'anh?,and the critical introductiontothe editionof hisSharkasma' al'uqq?r.Thisneglect,as weshallsee,hasledtoexaggerationsintheappreciationofMaimonides'sgreatnessandoriginalityasaphysician.This unfortunate situation alsoholdsgoodfor hismostpopularandmostinfluentialwork,namely,F?tadb?r al-sihha(OntheRegimenofHealth),writtenin1198attherequest4The Hebrewtranslationsoftheshorter versionandof thelongerversion,whichaccordingto somescholarsisspurious,havebeen editedbyHermann Kroner in:EinBeitragzurGeschichtederMedizin desXII.JahrhundertsanderHandzweier medizinischerAbhandlungendesMaimonidesaufGrundvon6unediertenHandschriftendargestelltund kritischbeleuchtet(Oberdorf-Bopfingen,1906).The Arabicoriginalof theshorterversion hasbeeneditedbyKroner in: "EinemedizinischeMaimonides-HandschriftausGranada",Janus,XXI(1916);pp.203-47.RecentlyanothertextascribedtoMaimonides,dealingwith sexualintercourse and writteninHebrew,has beenpublishedbyMordechaiL.Wilenski;seehis"Hanhagatha-Beri'utba-MishgalLaqu'ahmi-RabbiMoshehMaim?nZikhronoli-Bherakhah",AAJR,Proceedings,LVI(1990),pp.101?13.5"F? tadb?ral-sihhat,Gesundheitsanleitungdas Maimonidesfur den Sultan al-Malikal-Afdal",ZumerstenMaleimUrtexteherausgegeben,insDeutsche?bertragenund kritischerl?utertvonH.Kroner,Janus,XXVII(1923): pp.101-16,285-300;XXVIII(1924):pp.61-74,143-52,199-217,408-19,455-72;(1925):pp.235-58.Englishtranslation:Moses Maimonides'Two TreatisesontheRegimenofHealth,fttadb?r al-sihhaandMaq?laf?bay?nal-a'r?dwa-al-jaw?b'anh?,translatedfrom the Arabicand editedinaccordancewiththeHebrewand LatinversionsbyArielBar-Sela,HebbelE.Hoff,and EliasFaris,TransactionsoftheAmericanPhilosophicalSociety,NewSeries-Volume54,Part4,(Philadelphia,1964).6MosesMaimonidesontheCausesofSymptoms, Maq?laf?bay?nal-a'r?dwa-al-jaw?b'anh?,Ma'amarhaHaqra'ah,DeCausisAccidentium,editedbyJ.O.Leibowitzand ShlomoMarcus,with thecollaborationof M.Beit-Ari?,E.D.Goldschmidt,F.Klein-Franke,E.Lieber,M.Plessner(Berkeley-LosAngeles-London,1974).7Sharhasmaal-uqq?r, (L'explicationdesnomsdesdrogues).Unglossairedemati?rem?dicalecompos?parMa?monide. Textepubli?pourlapremi?refoisd'apr?sle manuscrituniqueparMaxMeyerhof(Cairo,1940).8"DieHaemorrhoideninder MedicindesXIIundXIIIJahrhunderts."An derHand einermedicinischerAbhandlungdesMaimonides ?ber die HaemorrhoidenunterZuziehungeinergleichnamigenmedicinischenAbhandlungdesSalomobarJussufIbnAjjub,aufGrund8 unedierten HandschriftendargestelltundkritischbeleuchtetvonH.Kroner,Janus(1911), pp.441-56,645-718.9RabbeinuMoshehBenMaim?n,Seferha-Qazeret0Seferha-Mis'adim.Be-Targumoha-Ivrishelha-RofeR.ShmuelBenveniste,edited with introductionandcommentarybyS?ssmannMuntner(Jerusalem,1940).
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