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The Kitab al-hayawan (???? ???????, English: Book of Animals) is an Arabic translation in 19 treatises (maqalat) of the following zoological texts by Aristotle
Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
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Historia Animalium
History of Animals

History of Animals is a zoology natural history text by Aristotle.The work consists of lengthy descriptions of countless species of fish, shellfish, and other animals and their anatomies....
 : treatises 1-10
De Partibus Animalium
On the Parts of Animals

On the Parts of Animals is a text by Aristotle. It was written around 350 BC....
 : treatises 11-14
De Generatione Animalium
Generation of Animals

Generation of Animals is a text by Aristotle....
 : treatises 15-19

While the book is often attributed to one Yahyà bin al-Bitriq, the translator is unknown. However, from certain oddities in the Arabic, it has been deduced that it is a translation of a lost Syriac version.






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The Kitab al-hayawan (???? ???????, English: Book of Animals) is an Arabic translation in 19 treatises (maqalat) of the following zoological texts by Aristotle
Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
:

Historia Animalium
History of Animals

History of Animals is a zoology natural history text by Aristotle.The work consists of lengthy descriptions of countless species of fish, shellfish, and other animals and their anatomies....
 : treatises 1-10
De Partibus Animalium
On the Parts of Animals

On the Parts of Animals is a text by Aristotle. It was written around 350 BC....
 : treatises 11-14
De Generatione Animalium
Generation of Animals

Generation of Animals is a text by Aristotle....
 : treatises 15-19

While the book is often attributed to one Yahyà bin al-Bitriq, the translator is unknown. However, from certain oddities in the Arabic, it has been deduced that it is a translation of a lost Syriac version. The complete text is available only in MS
Manuscript

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 form (in Tehran
Tehran

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), but treatises 11-14 (De Partibus) have been edited as Ajza’ al-hayawan (The Parts of Animals) (Ed. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Badawi. Kuwait: Wakalat al-matbu‘at, 1978), and 15-19 (De Generatione) as Fi kawn al-hayawan (On the Being of Animals) (Ed. J. Brugman and H.J. Drossaart Lulofs. Leiden: Brill, 1971).

K. al-hayawan in the Christian West

Finally, Michael Scot
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’s early 13th-century Latin
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 translation of the Kitab al-hayawan, De Animalibus, is worthy of mention as the vehicle of transmission into Western Europe. It was alleged by Roger Bacon
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For the Nova Scotia premier see Roger Bacon .Roger Bacon, Order of Friars Minor , also known as Doctor Mirabilis , was an England philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism....
 that Scot “had appropriated to himself the credit of translations which more properly belonged to one Andreas the Jew.” This may mean that he had help with the Arabic MS, or that he worked fully or in part from a Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew version. Scot's De Animalibus is available in a partial edition (Scot, Michael. De Animalibus. Vols 1-3. Leiden: Brill, 1992).