Godefroid De Callataÿ
Biographic Data
| ID | 708046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Godefroid De Callataÿ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Godefroid |
| FAMILY NAME | De Callataÿ |
| SIGNATURE | DE CALLATAŸ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6712-1999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' and the earliest commentaries on the Ṣefer Yeẓīra
Modern scholarship has revealed that the impact of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' in the general history of ideas was more extended, ramified and lasting than previously assumed, and that it needs to be significantly re-evaluated. As part of this broad phenomenon, it is also becoming increasingly clear today that the Brethren of Purity left a profound mark on Jewish thought throughout the Middle Ages and that their influence was not restricted to a particul…
Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Kitāb al-Dawāʾir
Following the steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman world. I
This article is a first step in a project to study the influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman world. We argue that, at least from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the second half of the sixteenth, the knowledge presented in the encyclopedic Rasāʾil was a conspicuous scholarly source for the Ottoman cultural milieu, especially at the dynastic court, and played a significant role in forming their epistemological pe…
Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Animals
The epistle on animals by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ has never ceased to exert a kind of fascination, but the attention of its readers, ancient and modern alike, has hitherto been focused almost exclusively on the fable which it contains and which occupies the greater part of the treatise. In this study, we shall primarily consider the other, non-narrative part of the epistle, sometimes referred to nowadays as a mere ‘prologue’ to the fable although it …
In code we trust
In the medieval Arabic tradition of the so-called occult sciences, the concept of ramz (symbol, code) has acquired an important role in the way the authors were considering and reading the texts of their predecessors and writing their owns. This term, closely related to the notion of secret, covered various ideas of code: from allegories and allusions to codenames and secret alphabets. Above all, the alchemists made ramz a real topos of their lit…
Rutba vs Ġāya
This study aims to reconsider the impact of the Rasāʾil Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ on the Rutbat al-ḥakīm ( The Rank of the Sage ) and the Ġāyat al-ḥakīm ( The Aim of the Sage ). Exclusively concerned with textual evidence taken from the three works and making extensive use of the programme Qawl , it shows that the way Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī refers to the Iḫwānian corpus in the Rutba reveals a far less familiarity with that work than at the time he writ…
Dividing Science by Ten
The Ġāyat al-ḥakīm (“the Aim of the Sage”), the Arab ancestor of the celebrated Picatrix on astral magic, includes a curious tenfold classification of the sciences, with five disciplines said to be compulsory “for the legislators” and five “for the philosopher”. This classification was once described by Hellmut Ritter and Martin Plessner as “ein Unikum in der umfangreichen Einteilungsliteratur”. This paper is a survey of medieval texts concerned …
For Those with Eyes to See’
Does the famous animal fable, as narrated by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in Epistle 22 of their Rasāʾil, possess an inner meaning? The issue is not new, but it may be useful to address it again today, considering the recent, significant re-evaluation of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity in the overall history of medieval thinking. It is also important to return to this issue since it was largely left aside by the editors of Epistle 22 who are part o…
Encyclopaedism on the Fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy
Recent scholarship has brought important new insights into the chronology of the writing and dissemination of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (‘Epistles of the Brethren of Purity’). This new chronological perspective prompts us also to reappraise the pioneering role of the Ikhwān with regard to the problem of classifying knowledge. The first part of this paper will be devoted to this issue. We shall re-examine the tripartite division of science as pu…
Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā
Sur quatre séances, nous avons cherché à explorer le fameux corpus encyclopédique des Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' (Épîtres des Frères de la Pureté) et à situer son rôle dans l'histoire des sciences et des idées au Moyen Âge. Les séances ont été articulées comme suit
De nuevo sobre Maslama Ibn Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, los Ijwān al-Ṣafā’ e Ibn Jaldūn
Como continuación a estudios anteriores sobre la recepción de las Rasā’il Ijwān al-Ṣafā’ en al-Andalus, en este artículo se sostiene que entre los estudiosos andalusíes de la Edad Media era una creencia generalizada considerar al astrónomo Maslama al-Maŷrīṭī (m. 395/1004 o poco después) como el autor no solo de la Rutbat al-ḥakīm y la Gāyat al-ḥakīm – hoy ambas correctamente atribuidas a Maslama Ibn Qasīm al-Qurṭubī (m. 353/964) – sino también de…
Towards the Critical Edition of the Rutbat al-ḥakīm
This article is focused on the manuscript tradition of the Rutbat al-ḥakīm , an alchemical treatise written in al-Andalus by Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī in 339/950-342/953. The authors also describe new manuscripts of the work, including one among the earliest in the tradition of the Rutba , remained unknown until now. At the end of the article, new elements are provided about the dating of the Rutba as found in manuscripts
Magia en al-Andalus
El artículo analiza la introducción de las Rasā’il ijwān al-Ṣafā’ en al-Andalus y la implicación de esta cuestión en la historia de la ciencia y la filosofía árabes. Más particularmente, se centra en el impacto de la enciclopedia de los Hermanos de la Pureza en dos obras importantes de la literatura de al-Andalus en el campo de las ciencias ocultas: la Rutbat al-ḥakīm y la Gāyat al-ḥakīm. Retoma el tema de la autoría y cronología de estas tres ob…
Une lumière venue d'ailleurs
Miroir et Savoir
Une lumière venue d’ailleurs. Héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d’Orient et d’Occident au Moyen Age
Les trois grandes projections historiques de l'Énéide
La narration quasi linéaire de l'Énéide de Virgile s'interrompt en trois endroits de l'œuvre (Prophétie de Jupiter à Vénus au chant I ; Revue des Héros au chant VI ; Bouclier d'Énée au chant VIII), qui sont comme autant de ponts jetés par le poète entre l'époque lointaine d'Énée et le siècle d'or augustéen. Le comptage des vers constituant ces épisodes célèbres révèle que les noms de Romulus, de Brutus et d'Auguste, respectivement fondateurs de l…
Une lumière venue d’ailleurs. Héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d’Orient et d’Occident au Moyen Age
Dividing Science by Ten
The Ġāyat al-ḥakīm (“the Aim of the Sage”), the Arab ancestor of the celebrated Picatrix on astral magic, includes a curious tenfold classification of the sciences, with five disciplines said to be compulsory “for the legislators” and five “for the philosopher”. This classification was once described by Hellmut Ritter and Martin Plessner as “ein Unikum in der umfangreichen Einteilungsliteratur”. This paper is a survey of medieval texts concerned …
Les trois grandes projections historiques de l'Énéide
La narration quasi linéaire de l'Énéide de Virgile s'interrompt en trois endroits de l'œuvre (Prophétie de Jupiter à Vénus au chant I ; Revue des Héros au chant VI ; Bouclier d'Énée au chant VIII), qui sont comme autant de ponts jetés par le poète entre l'époque lointaine d'Énée et le siècle d'or augustéen. Le comptage des vers constituant ces épisodes célèbres révèle que les noms de Romulus, de Brutus et d'Auguste, respectivement fondateurs de l…
Miroir et Savoir
Une lumière venue d’ailleurs. Héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d’Orient et d’Occident au Moyen Age
Une lumière venue d'ailleurs
Magia en al-Andalus
El artículo analiza la introducción de las Rasā’il ijwān al-Ṣafā’ en al-Andalus y la implicación de esta cuestión en la historia de la ciencia y la filosofía árabes. Más particularmente, se centra en el impacto de la enciclopedia de los Hermanos de la Pureza en dos obras importantes de la literatura de al-Andalus en el campo de las ciencias ocultas: la Rutbat al-ḥakīm y la Gāyat al-ḥakīm. Retoma el tema de la autoría y cronología de estas tres ob…
Towards the Critical Edition of the Rutbat al-ḥakīm
This article is focused on the manuscript tradition of the Rutbat al-ḥakīm , an alchemical treatise written in al-Andalus by Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī in 339/950-342/953. The authors also describe new manuscripts of the work, including one among the earliest in the tradition of the Rutba , remained unknown until now. At the end of the article, new elements are provided about the dating of the Rutba as found in manuscripts
De nuevo sobre Maslama Ibn Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, los Ijwān al-Ṣafā’ e Ibn Jaldūn
Como continuación a estudios anteriores sobre la recepción de las Rasā’il Ijwān al-Ṣafā’ en al-Andalus, en este artículo se sostiene que entre los estudiosos andalusíes de la Edad Media era una creencia generalizada considerar al astrónomo Maslama al-Maŷrīṭī (m. 395/1004 o poco después) como el autor no solo de la Rutbat al-ḥakīm y la Gāyat al-ḥakīm – hoy ambas correctamente atribuidas a Maslama Ibn Qasīm al-Qurṭubī (m. 353/964) – sino también de…
Encyclopaedism on the Fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy
Recent scholarship has brought important new insights into the chronology of the writing and dissemination of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (‘Epistles of the Brethren of Purity’). This new chronological perspective prompts us also to reappraise the pioneering role of the Ikhwān with regard to the problem of classifying knowledge. The first part of this paper will be devoted to this issue. We shall re-examine the tripartite division of science as pu…
Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā
Sur quatre séances, nous avons cherché à explorer le fameux corpus encyclopédique des Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' (Épîtres des Frères de la Pureté) et à situer son rôle dans l'histoire des sciences et des idées au Moyen Âge. Les séances ont été articulées comme suit
For Those with Eyes to See’
Does the famous animal fable, as narrated by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in Epistle 22 of their Rasāʾil, possess an inner meaning? The issue is not new, but it may be useful to address it again today, considering the recent, significant re-evaluation of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity in the overall history of medieval thinking. It is also important to return to this issue since it was largely left aside by the editors of Epistle 22 who are part o…
Dividing Science by Ten
The Ġāyat al-ḥakīm (“the Aim of the Sage”), the Arab ancestor of the celebrated Picatrix on astral magic, includes a curious tenfold classification of the sciences, with five disciplines said to be compulsory “for the legislators” and five “for the philosopher”. This classification was once described by Hellmut Ritter and Martin Plessner as “ein Unikum in der umfangreichen Einteilungsliteratur”. This paper is a survey of medieval texts concerned …
In code we trust
In the medieval Arabic tradition of the so-called occult sciences, the concept of ramz (symbol, code) has acquired an important role in the way the authors were considering and reading the texts of their predecessors and writing their owns. This term, closely related to the notion of secret, covered various ideas of code: from allegories and allusions to codenames and secret alphabets. Above all, the alchemists made ramz a real topos of their lit…
Rutba vs Ġāya
This study aims to reconsider the impact of the Rasāʾil Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ on the Rutbat al-ḥakīm ( The Rank of the Sage ) and the Ġāyat al-ḥakīm ( The Aim of the Sage ). Exclusively concerned with textual evidence taken from the three works and making extensive use of the programme Qawl , it shows that the way Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī refers to the Iḫwānian corpus in the Rutba reveals a far less familiarity with that work than at the time he writ…
Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Animals
The epistle on animals by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ has never ceased to exert a kind of fascination, but the attention of its readers, ancient and modern alike, has hitherto been focused almost exclusively on the fable which it contains and which occupies the greater part of the treatise. In this study, we shall primarily consider the other, non-narrative part of the epistle, sometimes referred to nowadays as a mere ‘prologue’ to the fable although it …
Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Kitāb al-Dawāʾir
Following the steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman world. I
This article is a first step in a project to study the influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman world. We argue that, at least from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the second half of the sixteenth, the knowledge presented in the encyclopedic Rasāʾil was a conspicuous scholarly source for the Ottoman cultural milieu, especially at the dynastic court, and played a significant role in forming their epistemological pe…
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' and the earliest commentaries on the Ṣefer Yeẓīra
Modern scholarship has revealed that the impact of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' in the general history of ideas was more extended, ramified and lasting than previously assumed, and that it needs to be significantly re-evaluated. As part of this broad phenomenon, it is also becoming increasingly clear today that the Brethren of Purity left a profound mark on Jewish thought throughout the Middle Ages and that their influence was not restricted to a particul…
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