TY - BOOK AU - Swain,Simon TI - A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 1: Essays T2 - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East SN - 9789004545564 AV - R144.A1 U1 - 610.9 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Medicine, Arab.  KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman.  KW - Medicine, Medieval.  KW - Physicians KW - Biography.  KW - Arab countries N1 - 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-anbāʾ fÄ« á¹­abaqāt al-aá¹­ibbāʾ : 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-anbāʾ fÄ« á¹­abaqāt al-aá¹­ibbāʾ --   Ignacio Sánchez -- 5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbāʾ fÄ« á¹­abaqāt al-aá¹­ibbāʾ --   Ignacio Sánchez -- 6 Poetry in Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbāʾ --   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-anbāʾ --   Emilie Savage-Smith -- List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbāʾ -- 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 N2 - An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004545564 ER -