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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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Author:   Emilie Savage-Smith ,  Simon Swain ,  Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.877kg
ISBN:  

9789004696556

ISBN 10:   9004696555
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   03 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 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 3

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""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

"""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 Information

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

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