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A critical edition of the Arabic Historia Animalium has long been awaited, and Lourus Filius’s edition, based on all extant Arabic MSS, as well as on Scotus’s Latin translation, can rightly be seen as a scholarly landmark.
"Gewissenhaft und akribisch durchgeführten, gründlich bearbeiteten und hervorragend aufbereiteten, zielführenden Edition." Herbert Eisenstein in Der Islam 98/2 (2021)
Lourus S. Filius, Ph.D. (1989) in Semitics, Free University of Amsterdam, is a specialist of Arabic and Hebrew translations of ancient Greek texts. He was affiliated with the Department of Arabic of the University of Leiden.