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.
Recenzijas
"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
Volume 3-1 Annotated English Translation
Preface
Bruce Inksetter
1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine
Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith
2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated
the Practice of That Art
Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain
3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius
Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sįnchez
4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine
Ignacio Sįnchez and Simon Swain
5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen
Simon Swain
6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries
Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain
7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period
Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sįnchez
8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period
Bruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)
9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek
into Arabic, and Their Patrons
Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sįnchez
10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazrah and Diyr Bakr
Alasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)
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
