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A Literary History of Medicine
The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 2-2: Arabic Edition
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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.
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.
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
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
Volume 2-2 Arabic Edition
11 Physicians in the Lands of the Persians (Bilād al-ʿajam) (الباب الحادي عشر في طبقات الأطباء الذين ظهروا في بلاد العجم)
Alasdair Watson, N. Peter Joosse, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez
12 Physicians of India (الباب الثاني عشر في طبقات الأطباء الذين كانوا من الهند)
Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez
13 Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There (الباب الثالث عشر فى طبقات الأطباء الذين ظهروا في بلاد المغرب وأقاموا بها)
Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder
14 Famous Physicians amongst Those in Egypt (الباب الرابع عشر في طبقات الأطباء المشهورين من أطباء ديار مصر)
Franak Hilloowala, Emilie Savage-Smith, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez
15 Famous Syrian Physicians (الباب الخامس عشر في طبقات الأطباء المشهورين من أطباء الشام)
N. Peter Joosse, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez
Addendum to 15.49: Biography of Amīn al-Dawlah in Version 1
Appendix 1: Ibn al-Nafīs
Ignacio Sánchez
Appendix 2: Additional Marginalia
Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder
Anyone interested in the Greco-Roman legacy in Islam; in ancient and medieval healthcare; in Arabic literature and poetry; in Christians and Jews in Islamic culture; in medieval history and society.