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A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Ab Uaybiah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the authors 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.
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"This edition will hopefully become the standard basis for research on the Uyn, especially in the Arab world. The fact that it is published open access may assist in this. The same can be said for the translation, which finally makes Ibn Ab Uaybiahs text available in full to historians of medicine as well as other scholars who do not have access to the Arabic text. [ ...] All in all, the edition is a great contribution to scholarship, to be received with gratitude by a wide range of scholars." Remke Kruk, in Bulletin of the School and Oriental and African Studies 84/1 (2021)
"Cette publication qui est amenée ą devenir la nouvelle édition et traduction de référence des Uyn al-anb f abaqt al-aibb dIbn Ab Uaybia, témoigne de limportance du travail collectif pour renouveler lapproche de sources connues depuis longtemps mais dont il reste encore beaucoup ą apprendre. Le principal apport de cette équipe a été de reprendre létude de la tradition manuscrite et dobtenir des résultats nouveaux et utiles ą lhistoire du livre médiéval." Audrey Caire, in Codicologie
Acknowledgements
Editorial Policy
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Map of the Islamic World ca. 1200
Volume 1 Essays
1 Introductory Remarks
2 Ibn Ab Uaybiah: His Life and Career
Franak Hilloowala
3 Uyn al-anb f abaqt al-aibb: Its Genre and Title
Geert Jan van Gelder
4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Ab Uaybiahs Uyn al-anb
f abaqt al-aibb
Ignacio Sįnchez
5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn Ab Uaybiahs Uyn
al-anb f abaqt al-aibb
Ignacio Sįnchez
6 Poetry in Uyn al-anb
Geert Jan van Gelder
7 The Greek
Chapters and Galen
Simon Swain
8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the Uyn al-anb
Emilie Savage-Smith
List of Biographies by
Chapter in Ibn Ab Uaybiahs Uyn al-anb
Bibliography
General Index to Vol. 1
Glossary of Weights and Measures
Index of Verses to Vol. 2
Index of Quranic 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
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: Polemons 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, 19751998; Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, 19982012. Fellow of the KNAW and the British Academy; author of many publications on Classical Arabic literature.
Contributors: Ignacio Sįnchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, Franak Hilloowala
