A Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia

A Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Chagatay Work by Subḥān Qulï Khan
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28256-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Brill's Inner Asian Library

This is the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia. The richly annotated English translation makes the edition useful for readers without special knowledge on medical history and Turkic studies.
The author offers a critical edition of a seventeenth-century Central Asian medical treatise written by Sayyid Subhan Qulï Muhammad Bahadur khan in the Chagatay language.The edition includes a detailed introduction, a transcription of the original text for philological purposes, an annotated English translation, complete lexica of vocabulary, herbs and plants, minerals and chemicals, diseases and related terms, measures and units, personal names and Qur'anic verses, and finally two manuscripts in facsimile.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karoly, László

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit

Über Autor(innen)

László Károly, PhD (2008) in Altaic linguistics, is assistant professor for Turkic studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. He has several publications on Turkic, including Deverbal Nominals in Yakut. A Historical Approach (Harrassowitz, 2013).