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A Literary History of Medicine : : The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 1: Essays / / edited by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain and Geert Jan van Gelder, with Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter and Franak Hilloowala.

An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to th...

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Superior document:	Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 134/1
TeilnehmendeR:	Swain, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:	Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2020. ©2020
Year of Publication:	2020
Edition:	1st ed.
Language:	English Arabic
Series:	Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 134/1. Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (523 pages)
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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 AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah: His Life and Career
â€ƒ Franak Hilloowala
3 Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄÊ¾ fÄ« á¹abaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄÊ¾ : Its Genre and Title
â€ƒ Geert Jan van Gelder
4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄÊ¾ fÄ« á¹abaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄÊ¾
â€ƒ Ignacio SÃ¡nchez
5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄÊ¾ fÄ« á¹abaqÄt al-aá¹ibbÄÊ¾
â€ƒ Ignacio SÃ¡nchez
6 Poetry in Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄÊ¾
â€ƒ Geert Jan van Gelder
7 The Greek Chapters and Galen
â€ƒ Simon Swain
8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄÊ¾
â€ƒ Emilie Savage-Smith
List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn AbÄ« Uá¹£aybiÊ¿ah's Ê¿UyÅ«n al-anbÄÊ¾
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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