В сообщении от Thursday 22 November 2007 14:50:59 Anatol B. Bazyukin написал(а): > Здравствуйте, Catherine. > > >Фу! там тоже врут > > Вы невнимательно прочли компьютерру: > > Впрочем, в этой легенде содержится лишь малая толика истины
Там никакой толики истины нет. См. внимательно ещё раз: The errors in the sources are obvious and the story itself is almost wholly incredible. ... Agreeing with Gibbon this time, we can dismiss it as a legend. > Однако, несмотря на то что эта легенда скорее всего исламского > происхождения, она пришлась по вкусу западным ориенталистам, привыкшим > сетовать на печальную судьбу европейского знания на варварском Востоке. Ж%оО Как у вас с английским? http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm#omar Тогда я приведу подробнее цитату из ссылки выше: In the thirteenth century ___the great Jacobite ***Christian*** Bishop Gregory Bar Hebræus (died 1286), called Abû 'l Faraj in Arabic___, fleshes the story out and includes the famous epigram about the Koran. Again there is no clue as to where he found the story but it seems to have been one doing the rounds among Christians living under the dominion of the Moslems. Gregory is happy to record plenty of far fetched tales about omens and monstrosities so we must treat this story with the greatest suspicion. As it is not even included in the original version of his history but only in the Arabic version that he translated and abridged himself very late in life, he may not have known the story when he first put pen to parchment. In The Vanished Library, Canfora mentions a Syriac manuscript published in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century by François Nau. It was written by a Christian monk in the ninth century and details the conversation between John and Caliph Omar. After help from email correspondents, I have finally been able to find this elusive document in its French translation and ascertained that it makes ___no mention of any library and appears to be an example of a theological dialogue between two representative individuals___. In other words ___it is not historical and has no pretensions to be___. —— С уважением, Catherine _______________________________________________ smoke-room mailing list [email protected] https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/smoke-room
