Mamluks and Animals

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23405-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 22 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series

Housni Alkhateeb Shehada's Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam is the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Islamic world, with special emphasis on the Mamluk period (1250-1517). Based on a large variety of sources, it is a history of a scientific field that is also examined from social and cultural perspectives. Horses, as well as birds of prey used for hawking and falconry, were at the centre of the veterinary literature of that period, but the treatment and cure of other animals was not totally neglected. The Mamluk period is presented here as the time when veterinary medicine reached its pinnacle in medieval Islam and often even surpassed human medicine.

Zielgruppe

Institutes of Islamic studies, history of medicine, history of the Middle East and animal studies, academic libraries, public libraries, schools of veterinary medicine, graduate and undergraduate students, educated laymen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shehada, Housni Alkhateeb

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie

Über Autor(innen)

Shehada, Housni Alkhateeb
Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Ph.D. (2006), Tel Aviv University, teaches Arabic, Islamic Culture and History of Art at Ben-Gurion University and Levinsky College of Education. He has published a book of poetry and several studies on veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.