A Literary History of Medicine : The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 1: Essays / edited by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain and Geert Jan van Gelder, with Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter and Franak Hilloowala.
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TextLanguage: English, Arabic Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 134/1. | Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (522 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 1: Essays
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Editorial Policy -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Islamic World ca. 1200 -- Volume 1 Essays -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah: His Life and Career --   Franak Hilloowala -- 3 Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄʾ fÄ« á¹abaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄʾ : Its Genre and Title --   Geert Jan van Gelder -- 4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄʾ fÄ« á¹abaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄʾ --   Ignacio Sánchez -- 5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄʾ fÄ« á¹abaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄʾ --   Ignacio Sánchez -- 6 Poetry in Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄʾ --   Geert Jan van Gelder -- 7 The Greek Chapters and Galen --   Simon Swain -- 8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄʾ --   Emilie Savage-Smith -- List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄʾ -- 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.
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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