Philippe Provençal

Biographic Data

ID4992396
NAMEPhilippe Provençal
GIVEN NAMESPhilippe
FAMILY NAMEProvençal
SIGNATUREPROVENÇAL P
AFFILIATIONSMusée National d'Histoire Naturelle
ORCID0009-0004-9670-5319
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Meyssa Ben Saâd , Ordonner la diversité du vivant dans le Kitāb al-Ḥayawān d’al-Ğāḥiẓ (776-868). Zoologie et connaissance du vivant dans les sciences arabes médiévales

    Open AccessPhilippe ProvençalARTICLECahiers de civilisation médiévale2026

    À la suite d’une étude consacrée aux origines et au développement de la dansa des troubadours, cet article s’attache à retracer les premières étapes de l’histoire du virelai français, « forme fixe » poético-musicale, que Guillaume de Machaut – qui lui préférait l’appellation de « chanson baladee » – porta à son plus haut degré d’élaboration au xive siècle. Les premières descriptions théoriques de cette forme ne se rencontrent toutefois que dans d…

  • Meyssa Ben Saâd, Ordonner la diversité du vivant dans le Kitāb al-Ḥayawān d’al-Ğāḥiẓ (776-868). Zoologie et connaissance du vivant dans les sciences arabes médiévales

    Open AccessPhilippe ProvençalARTICLECahiers de civilisation médiévale2025

    Ce document a t gnr automatiquement le 21 janvier 2026.Le texte seul est utilisable

  • Islamic Law, Linguistic Complexity and Scientific Knowledge

    Open AccessAlessandro Gori, Philippe ProvençalARTICLEAethiopica2025

    In the present article a list of Arabic animal names copied in a codex kept in a collection in the town of Agaro (Jimma Zone, Oromia Region) is published and analyzed. Together with the Arabic words, the short text contains also explicatory glosses and translations into Amharic and Oromo. The authors describe the origin and the function of the text, setting it into the wider framework of the production of lists and glossaries in the manuscript tr…

  • The Chapter on Birds in the Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ

    Philippe ProvençalARTICLEQuaderni di Studi Arabi2023

    Deserts, difficult and demanding to live in, the people of the Arabic Peninsula needed to know the detailed facts of the nature surrounding them. With the expansion of caliphate and the urban cultures that followed in the urban centres, such a knowledge was not a necessity anymore, but it constituted one of the two main sources for the interest in nature which arose among intellectuals, the other being the translated works of mainly Aristotle’s z…

  • Marine Biological Report in the Nuḫbat Al-Dahr Fī ʿaǧāʾib Al-Barr Wa-Al-Baḥr

    Open AccessPhilippe ProvençalARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy2014

    The aim of this article is to present a medieval Arabic report regarding six animals from the Gulf of Aden, to provide a zoological identification of five of the animals in question, which may be identified, and to comment on the biological data provided by the report in the light of both contemporary and modern zoological knowledge and, thus, to evaluate the scientific standard of the report

  • The Mode of Action of Venom According to Jabar;[hdotu]i[zdotu]

    Open AccessAhmed Aarab, Philippe Provençal et al.ARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy2001

    The aim of this paper is to present the modes of action of venom as construed by Abū 'Uthmān 'Amr ibn Ba[hdotu]r al-Jā[hdotu]i[zdotu] (780-868) in his Kitāb al-[Hdotu]ayawān (The Book of Animals). The toxicological information presented by Jā[hdotu]i[zdotu] is a synthesis of data available in his time, but Jā[hdotu]i[zdotu] complemented these early conceptions by his personal theoretical views. Jā[hdotu]i[zdotu]'s fundamental idea is that venoms …

  • Eco-Ethological Data According to Ĝāhiz through his Work Kitāb Al-Hayawān (The Book of Animals)

    Ahmed Aarab, Philippe Provençal et al.ARTICLEArabica2000

    1 Faculté des sciences et techniques—B.P. 416—Tanger, Maroc. 2 Naturhistorisk Museum Arhus, Universitetparken, Bygning 210. DK-8000 Arhus C. Denmark. 3 Faculté des sciences—B.P. 2121—Tétouan. Maroc. 4 ]ˆú i 1⁄2 , Kit ˆ b al- ú ayaw ˆ n , established and annotated by Abdessal ˆ m Mohammed H ˆ roun; ed. D ˆ r el-Gil and D ˆ r el-Fikr, 7 vols., (Beyrouth, 1988). 5 See, for example, Palacio, M.A. (1930). El “Libro de los animales” de ]ˆú i 1⁄2 . Isis…