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OverviewAn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emilie Savage-Smith , Simon Swain , Geert Jan van GelderPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Weight: 0.877kg ISBN: 9789004696556ISBN 10: 9004696555 Pages: 502 Publication Date: 03 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Editorial Policy List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Map of the Islamic World ca. 1200 Volume 1 Essays 1 Introductory Remarks 2 Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah: His Life and Career Franak Hilloowala 3 ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ: Its Genre and Title Geert Jan van Gelder 4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ Ignacio Sánchez 5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ Ignacio Sánchez 6 Poetry in ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ Geert Jan van Gelder 7 The Greek Chapters and Galen Simon Swain 8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ Emilie Savage-Smith List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn 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 3Reviews"""This edition will hopefully become the standard basis for research on the ʿUyūn, especially in the Arab world. The fact that it is published open access may assist in this. The same can be said for the translation, which finally makes Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s text available in full to historians of medicine as well as other scholars who do not have access to the Arabic text. [...] All in all, the edition is a great contribution to scholarship, to be received with gratitude by a wide range of scholars."" Remke Kruk, in Bulletin of the School and Oriental and African Studies 84/1 (2021) ""Cette publication qui est amenée à devenir la nouvelle édition et traduction de référence des ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ d’Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, témoigne de l’importance du travail collectif pour renouveler l’approche de sources connues depuis longtemps mais dont il reste encore beaucoup à apprendre. Le principal apport de cette équipe a été de reprendre l’étude de la tradition manuscrite et d’obtenir des résultats nouveaux et utiles à l’histoire du livre médiéval."" Audrey Caire, in Codicologie" Author InformationEmilie 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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