A Literary History of Medicine

The ʿuyūn Al-Anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-Aṭibbāʾ Of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 2-1: Arabic Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69656-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 104 mm x 275 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

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

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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 Physigonomy 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.