Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editors / Translators: Emilie Savage-Smith , Simon Swain , and Geert Jan van Gelder -- Copyright Page / Editors / Translators: Emilie Savage-Smith , Simon Swain , and Geert Jan van Gelder -- Chapter 12 Physicians of India / Bruce Inksetter and Emilie Savage-Smith -- Chapter 13 Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There / Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder -- Chapter 14 Famous Physicians amongst Those in Egypt / Franak Hilloowala , Emilie Savage-Smith , and Geert Jan van Gelder -- Chapter 15 Famous Syrian Physicians / N. Peter Joosse and Geert Jan van Gelder -- Appendix 1 Ibn al-Nafīs / Ignacio Sánchez -- Appendix 2 Additional Marginalia / Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder.

An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (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.

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