Subject: [HM] Lost Arabic works in translation
From: Kim Plofker (Kim_Plofker@Brown.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 20:21:16 EST
> I would like to ask about the possibility that there may be books in
> Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu or other languages which were translated from
> Arabic and still unknown in the West. [...]
>
> Ralph Gainey
Almost certainly there are. But so much of the Indian (Sanskrit and
vernacular) corpus remains unknown in the West that it's hard to know
what's been preserved, and so much of the Arabic corpus remains unknown
in the West that it's hard to know what has been lost.
With best wishes,
Kim Plofker
Department of History of Mathematics
Brown University
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