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187 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500] · Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500]

2010

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Die Mineralien in Der Arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz Zur Mineralischen Materia Medica Der Klassischen Arabischen Heilmittelkunde Nebst ... Kommission (Vok) der A).

2011

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Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.

2011

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Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29. Part 1: Edition and commentary of List 1 (Hebrew-Arabic- Romance /Latin).

The first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush, and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was…

2011

#10461

Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.

2011

#12513

A new catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Vol. 1: Medicine.

2012

#8262

Mamluks and animals: Veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.

The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world.

2012

#8292

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.

2012

#11048

Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.

2012

#13342

Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles.

Includes a biography and bibliography of Ben Miled as well as a reprint of his thesis, L'école médicale de Kairouan aux xe et xie siècles (1933). The 2012 work was originally published in Arabic as Ṭibb al-ʻArabī al-T…

2013

#8250

Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.

2014

#7411

The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.

2014

#10911

Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.

2014

#12525

Medicine in Medieval Islam by Emilie Savage-Smith. IN: The Cambridge history of science, Vol. 2: Medieval science, edited by D. Lindberg and M. H. Shank, pp. 140-167.

2014

#12540

Islamic medical manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.

Online only. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/catalog_tb.html

2015

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2015

#8291

The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.

"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also…

2015

#8583

A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.

"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…

2015

#8790

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

2015

#9476

The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.

Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

2015

#12629

The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed

This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…

2016

#8233

Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.

2016

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

2016

#10538

Ärztliches Leben und Denken im arabischen Mittelalter. Von Johann Christoph Bürgel. Bearbeitet von Fabian Käs.

"...Investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspec…

2016

#11049

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.

2017

#11139

Medieval Islamic medicine and medical luminaries.

2017

#12571

A Syriac medical Kunnāšā of Īšōʿ bar ʿAlī (9th c.): First soundings

Abstract: "A little-known thirteenth-century manuscript preserved in Damascus contains by far the largest Syriac medical work that has survived till today. Despite the missing beginning, a preliminary study of the tex…

2017

#13529

Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin. Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī. Edition, Übersetzung und Kontext von Juliane Müller.

2018

#10776

Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.

2018

#11831

Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.

2018

#12668

‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.

2018

#14032

Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.

2019

#10777

Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.

2019

#12778

The Regimen Sanitatis of Avenzoar: Stages in the production of a medieval translation.

"The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former tra…

2019

#13015

Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the oldest manuscript of his Pantegni.

"Medicine at Monte Cassino offers unprecedented insights into the revolutionary arrival of Arabic medicine to medieval Europe by exploring the oldest manuscript of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, which is identifi…

2020

#12511

A literary history of medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Edited and translated, with essays, by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain, and Geert Jan van Gelder. With Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, and Franak Hilloowala. 5 vols.

In addition to the printed version, Brill.com hosts an Open Access version of the text at scholarlyeditions.brill.com/ihom/.

2020

#12512

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, Anecdotes and antidotes: A medieval Arabic history of physicians. A new translation. Translated by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain et al. Selected and edited by Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, with introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder. [Oxford World’s Classics].

2020

#14031

The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.