Maimonides' On Coitus: A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation

Hardback Published on: 22/11/2018; Language: English, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, Slavic languages
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Synopsis

Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large number of slave girls. It is safe to assume that it was popular in Jewish and non-Jewish circles, as it survives in several manuscripts, both in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, three medieval Hebrew translations, two Latin versions from the same translation (edited by Charles Burnett), and a Slavonic translation (edited by Will Ryan and Moshe Taube).

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004380066
  • Number of pages: 252
  • Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 20 mm
  • Weight: 529g
  • Languages: English, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, Slavic languages