Treatise of the Errors of the Physicians in Damascus

Zusammenfassung The book forms an important contribution to our knowledge of medieval science and particularly medicine. It provides a critical edition and annotated English translation of a medical treatise written in Arabic by the Jewish philosopher Jacob ben Isaac, a contemporary of the great Maimonides, and puts the text in a historical framework.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Kahl
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2000
• EAN: 9780199290024
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929002-4
• No. of pages: 97
• Series: Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews