A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿuyūn Al-Anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-Aṭibbāʾ Of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (5 Volumes)

Volume I: Essays / Volume 2-1: Arabic Edition / Volume 2-2: Arabic Edition / Volume 3-1: Annotated English Translation / Volume 3-2: Annotated English Translation, Appendices and Indices
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41031-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 134, 3646 Seiten, Format (B × H): 254 mm x 342 mm, Gewicht: 6624 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill.

A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savage-Smith, Emilie

Swain, Simon

Gelder, Geert Jan van

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Editorial Policy

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Map of the Islamic World ca. 1200

Volume 1 Essays

1 Introductory Remarks

2 Ibn Abi U?aybi?ah: His Life and Career

Franak Hilloowala

3 ?Uyun al-anba? fi ?abaqat al-a?ibba?: Its Genre and Title

Geert Jan van Gelder

4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abi U?aybi?ah’s ?Uyun al-anba? fi ?abaqat al-a?ibba?

Ignacio Sánchez

5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn Abi U?aybi?ah’s ?Uyun al-anba? fi ?abaqat al-a?ibba?

Ignacio Sánchez

6 Poetry in ?Uyun al-anba?

Geert Jan van Gelder

7 The Greek Chapters and Galen

Simon Swain

8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the ?Uyun al-anba?

Emilie Savage-Smith

List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn Abi U?aybi?ah’s ?Uyun al-anba?

Bibliography

General Index to Vol. 1

Glossary of Weights and Measures

Index of Verses to Vol. 2

Index of Qur’anic Quotations and Allusions to Vols. 2 and 3

Index of Personal Names to Vols. 2 and 3

Index of Place Names to Vols. 2 and 3

Subject Index to Vols. 2 and 3

Volume 2-1 Arabic Edition

Description of the Manuscripts Used in this Edition

Preface

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine (????? ????? ?? ????? ???? ????? ???? ???? ??????)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That Art (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ???? ??? ????? ?? ????? ???? ?????? ????????? ???)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ?????????? ????? ?? ?? ??? ?????????)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ?????????? ????? ???? ?????? ???? ????? ????)

Ignacio Sánchez

5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ??????? ??????? ???)

Simon Swain

6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ????????????? ??? ??? ?? ??????? ?? ??????? ??????? ??????)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ??? ???? ??????? ?? ????? ????? ??????)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ?????????? ????? ????? ?? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ??????)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their Patrons (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ?????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ???????? ??? ?????? ?????? ???? ????? ????? ???)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazirah and Diyar Bakr (????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ????????? ?????? ??????? ????? ???)

Alasdair Watson, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez

Volume 2-2 Arabic Edition

11 Physicians in the Lands of the Persians (Bilad al-?ajam) (????? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ???? ?????)

Alasdair Watson, N. Peter Joosse, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez

12 Physicians of India (????? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ?????)

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

13 Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There (????? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ???? ?????? ??????? ???)

Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder

14 Famous Physicians amongst Those in Egypt (????? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ??????? ????????? ?? ????? ???? ???)

Franak Hilloowala, Emilie Savage-Smith, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez

15 Famous Syrian Physicians (????? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ??????? ????????? ?? ????? ?????)

N. Peter Joosse, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez

Addendum to 15.49: Biography of Amin al-Dawlah in Version 1

Appendix 1: Ibn al-Nafis

Ignacio Sánchez

Appendix 2: Additional Marginalia

Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder

Volume 3-1 Annotated English Translation

Preface

Bruce Inksetter

1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine

Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith

2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That Art

Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain

3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius

Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sánchez

4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine

Ignacio Sánchez and Simon Swain

5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen

Simon Swain

6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries

Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain

7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period

Bruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their Patrons

Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez

10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazirah and Diyar Bakr

Alasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

Volume 3-2 Annotated English Translation

11 Physicians in the Lands of the Persians (Bilad al-?ajam)

Alasdair Watson, N. Peter Joosse and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

12 Physicians of India

Bruce Inksetter and Emilie Savage-Smith

13 Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There

Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

14 Famous Physicians amongst Those in Egypt

Franak Hilloowala, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

15 Famous Syrian Physicians

N. Peter Joosse and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

The Biography of Amin al-Dawlah in Version 1

Appendix 1: Ibn al-Nafis

Ignacio Sánchez

Appendix 2: Additional Marginalia

Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder

Über Autor(innen)

Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA, was Professor of the History of Islamic Science, University of Oxford. Publications include A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, I: Medicine (2012) and, with Y. Rapoport, Lost Maps of the Caliphs (2019)

Simon Swain, FBA, is Professor of Classics, University of Warwick. Publications include Hellenism & Empire (1996), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon’s Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007), Economy, Family and Society from Rome to Islam (2013).

Geert Jan van Gelder, PhD Leiden 1982; Lecturer in Arabic, University of Groningen, 1975–1998; Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, 1998–2012. Fellow of the KNAW and the British Academy; author of many publications on Classical Arabic literature.

Contributors: Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, Franak Hilloowala.