TRANSLATIONS OF
MUSLIM SCIENTIFIC BOOKS
INTO LATIN AND OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
Dr. A. Zahoor
(Copyright 1992, 1997, All Rights Reserved)

The table below summarizes the Latin, German, French and English translations of books written by Muslim Scientists, Mathematicians, Astronomers, Geographers and Philosophers during 750 - 1500 C.E. Most of the earliest translations were in Latin and completed in the Middle Ages and during the first half of the renaissance. This is only a partial list. Additional books can be traced from the references cited elswhere.
Name |
Latin/English/French/German Translation |
Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber) |
The Book of the Composition of Alchemy, Book of Kingdom, Book of the Balances, Book of Eastern
Mercury, Sum of Perfection (all translated by Berthelot). |
Al-Battani (Albategnius) |
De Scienta Stellarum - De Numeris Stellarum et motibus (12th cent.), Al-Zij (Rome, 1899). |
Al-Farghani (Al-Fraganus) |
Scientia Stellarum, Jawami "The Elements" (Latin 1170-1187; Hebrew 1590; Latin 1669). |
Al-Razi (Rhazes) |
Continens (1279), Liber Almansoris (1480s, several editions ending in 1890), Nonus Almansuri, Liber
Experimentorum, Al-Judari wa al-Hasabah (London, 1848). |
Al-Zahravi
(Albucasis) |
Surgical Part of Al-Tasrif li man Ajazaan al-Taalif (Venice 1497, Basle 1541, Oxford 1778) |
Al-Haitham (Alhazen) |
Opticae Thesaurus (12th cent., also in Hebrew) |
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