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OverviewA 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: 1.415kg ISBN: 9789004696587ISBN 10: 900469658 Pages: 834 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 ContentsVolume 3-1 Annotated English Translation Preface Bruce Inksetter 1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith 2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That Art Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain 3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sánchez 4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine Ignacio Sánchez and Simon Swain 5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen Simon Swain 6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain 7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez 8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period Bruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry) 9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their Patrons Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez 10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazīrah and Diyār Bakr Alasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)Reviews"""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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