Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 560 g
Traditional Knowledge and Practice, and Their Value for Today's World
Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 560 g
Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization
ISBN: 978-90-04-22150-5
Verlag: Brill
Zielgruppe
Academic readers from various disciplinary fields, such as philology, history of medicine, Middle Eastern Studies, area studies (Yemen: medieval and contemporary, Jewish Yemen), anthropology, ethnography, agronomy, botany, pharmacy, pharmacology and ecology.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword, Sheikh A. Bawazir
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration convention
List of illustrations and maps
Introduction: Hanne Schönig and Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter One: The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health, Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter Two: Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants, Efraim Lev
Chapter Three: Magic and medicine in a thirteenth-century treatise on the science of the stars, Petra G. Schmidl
Chapter Four: Qat and traditional healing in Yemen, Daniel Martin Varisco
Chapter Five: The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern Arabia: Different approaches to their use, Miranda Morris
Chapter Six: Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
Chapter Seven: Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of Hadramawt, Mikhail Rodionov
Chapter Eight: From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs, Jacques Fleurentin
Chapter Nine: The miraculous plant halqa (Cyphostemma digitatum): From grandmother’s kitchen in Yemen’s south-western highlands to modern medicinal and culinary applications, Mohammed Al-Duais and Gottfried Jetschke
Chapter Ten: A pharmacist’s view of the potential value to modern medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen, Ulrike Lindequist
Chapter Eleven: Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: Healing practices as part of farmers’ traditional knowledge, Amin Al-Hakimi, Anhar Ya’ni, and Frédéric Pelat
About the authors
Index of plants and fungi
Index of names
Index of topics and keywords