A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿuyūn Al-Anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-Aṭibbāʾ Of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (5 Volumes) - Volume I: Essays / Volume 2-1: Arabic Edition / Volume 2-2: Arabic Edition / Volume 3-1: Annotated English Translation / Volume 3-2: Annotated English Translation, Appendices and Indices

A Literary History of Medicine offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated, informative and entertaining history of medicine - the first of its kind - by Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270), together with several introductory essays.

About the author

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 Physiognomy 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Geert Jan van Gelder (Editor), Emilie Savage-Smith (Editor), Simon Swain (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: Arab, English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004410312
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41031-2
• No. of pages: 3726
• Dimensions: 254 mm x 342 mm x 185 mm
• Weight: 6624 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous