A Literary History of Medicine

The ʿuyūn Al-Anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-Aṭibbāʾ Of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 3-2: Annotated English Translation and Appendices
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69659-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 830 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 1202 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 Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 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