The Sanskrit Syriac And Persian Sources In The Comprehensive Book Of Rhazes

Author : Oliver Kahl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004290242

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The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes by Oliver Kahl Pdf

This work offers a critical analysis of the Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in Rhazes’ (d. 925 CE) Comprehensive Book (or al-Kitāb al-Ḥāwī), a hugely famous and highly unusual medico-pharmaceutical encyclopedia originally written in Arabic. All text material appears in full Arabic with English translations throughout, whilst the traceable Indian fragments are represented here, for the first time, in both the original Sanskrit and corresponding English translations. The philological core of the book is framed by a detailed introductory study on the transmission of Indian, Syrian and Iranian medicine and pharmacy to the Arabs, and by extensive bilingual glossaries of relevant Arabic and Sanskrit terms as well as Latin botanical identifications. The World Award for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran has selected this title as one the best books of the year 2015 in the field of Islamic/ Iranian Studies.

Author : Emilie Savage-Smith,Simon Swain,Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545601

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A Literary History of Medicine by Emilie Savage-Smith,Simon Swain,Geert Jan van Gelder Pdf

An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s 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.

Author : Patrick Manning,Abigail Owen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986270

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Knowledge in Translation by Patrick Manning,Abigail Owen Pdf

In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of knowledge—cartography, health and medicine, material construction, astronomy—and a wide geographical range, from Eurasia to Africa and the Americas. Contributors literate in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Minnan, Ottoman, and Persian explore the history of science in the context of world and global history, investigating global patterns and implications in a multilingual and increasingly interconnected world. Chapters reveal cosmopolitan networks of shared practice and knowledge about the natural world from 1000 to 1800 CE, emphasizing both evolving scientific exchange and the emergence of innovative science. By unraveling the role of translation in cross-cultural communication, Knowledge in Translation highlights key moments of transmission, insight, and critical interpretation across linguistic and faith communities.

Author : Josef Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668231

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006) by Josef Meri Pdf

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.

Author : Roja Rahimi,Roodabeh Bahramsoltani
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781040028278

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Therapeutic Medicinal Plants in Traditional Persian Medicine by Roja Rahimi,Roodabeh Bahramsoltani Pdf

Traditional Persian Medicine (TPM) is one of the oldest medical doctrines, globally known due to pioneering physicians and scientists. The greatest source of natural medicines in TPM originates from medicinal plants. Therapeutic Medicinal Plants in Traditional Persian Medicine provides a background on the history of TPM, as well as an introduction to 40 of the most popular medicinal plants used in TPM. It is a practical guide for readers interested in medicinal plants used in the prevention, management, and treatment of different diseases. Features: Includes both traditional therapeutic applications and modern evidence/ uses Makes a comparison between preclinical and clinical studies Provides information on major chemical constituents, therapeutic uses, adverse reactions, and safety for each plant species A volume in the “Exploring Medicinal Plants” series, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, academicians, and scientists dealing witth medicinal plants, as well as for those interested in the fields of pharmacognosy, naturopathy, phytotherapy, and traditional medicines.

Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107068209

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The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates by Peter E. Pormann Pdf

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

Author : Christina Stapley
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781801520959

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A History of Plant Medicine by Christina Stapley Pdf

A comprehensive guide detailing the story of healing with herbs from pre-history to modern times. Drawing on her decades of experience as an established herbalist and historian, Christina Stapley presents an encyclopaedic and accessible guide to the theory and practice of Western herbal medicine throughout history. Spanning an impressive timeline of two thousand years, A History of Plant Medicine is a fundamental textbook for students and practitioners of herbal medicine to enhance their study and practice, as well as an enjoyable narrative for anyone interested in this bountiful and fascinating subject. Using a wealth of historical research, Stapley invites readers on a journey from the beginnings of botany, through to the development of Greek and Celtic medicine, including Roman medicine and the Roman settlement of Britain. It moves on to explore Anglo-Saxon leechbooks, Arabic Medicine, Norman influenced physicians and surgeons and pharmacy in the Medieval Period. It also examines the physic garden in Britain, Culpeper and Astrology, concluding with changes and developments to herbal medicine in the modern day. As well as offering a detailed chronology of herbalism in the Western world, A History of Plant Medicine provides practical advice and recipes which can be implemented in the daily practice of the modern herbalist. Stapley creates tangible threads through time, focusing on the most used herbs at different periods, and following them over the centuries. Special emphasis is put upon seeking out effective recipes and practices abandoned in favour of new ideas and foreign herbs, and each is presented clearly and accessibly throughout. A History of Plant Medicine also illuminates the work of women physicians across the ages, whose work has often been obscured or forgotten. Ultimately, A History of Plant Medicine invites herbalists (both new and old), historians, or interested lay people, to re-evaluate their relationship with herbal medicine, in understanding how different herbs are perceived in the light of knowledge and beliefs at particular times, in order to aid a greater understanding of the Western herbal tradition.

Author : ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004445895

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ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” by ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī Pdf

ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s health manual, which is edited and translated here, was written in the middle of the 9th century CE for a lay audience and represents the earliest extant Arabic text of its kind.

Author : Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472512499

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ReOrienting Histories of Medicine by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Pdf

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.

Author : Afifi al-Akiti,Aasim I. Padela
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030538019

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Islam and Biomedicine by Afifi al-Akiti,Aasim I. Padela Pdf

This book showcases multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and biomedicine. Within this broad area of scholarship, this book considers how Islamic theological constructs align with the science and practice of medicine, and in so doing offer resources for bridging the challenges of competing ontological visions, varied epistemic frameworks, and different theologies of life and living among the bodies of knowledge. By bringing together theologians, medical practitioners and intellectual historians, the book spurs deeper conversations at the intersection of these fields and provides fundamental resources for further dedicated research.

Author : ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004523302

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ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī: The Indian Books by ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī Pdf

ʿAlī ibn Sahl aṭ-Ṭabarī's Indian Books, completed in Samarra in 850 CE, offer a unique, interpretative summary of Ayurvedic medicine, as he understood it on the basis of now lost Arabic translations from Sanskrit.

Author : Fabrizio Speziale
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004352766

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Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud by Fabrizio Speziale Pdf

Cet ouvrage étudie, pour la première fois, le mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. En parallèle, il analyse les formes d’apprentissage de la culture médicale persane par les savants hindous. This book looks for the first time at the movement of translation of Ayurvedic sources into Persian that took place from the 14th century onwards. In parallel, it analyzes the forms of learning of Persian medical culture by Hindu scholars.

Author : Michael R. McVaugh,Gerrit Bos,Joseph Shatzmiller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004406452

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The Regimen sanitatis of “Avenzoar” by Michael R. McVaugh,Gerrit Bos,Joseph Shatzmiller Pdf

The volume presents Avenzoar’s Regimen of Health (from twelfth-century Spain) in its medieval Latin and Hebrew translations from Arabic, together with an English version, and demonstrates in detail how the translation team—one Jew, one Christian—negotiated its collaborative result.

Author : Delia Gavrus,Susan Lamb
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780228012337

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Transforming Medical Education by Delia Gavrus,Susan Lamb Pdf

In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural barriers in medical education. The essays in this collection offer new insights into the deep histories of these processes, across time and around the globe. Transforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that foreground processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts. The chapters are organized around the themes of knowledge transmission, social justice, identity, pedagogy, and the surprising affinities between medical and historical practice. By juxtaposing original research on diverse geographies and eras – from medieval Japan to twentieth-century Canada, and from colonial Cameroon to early Republican China – the volume disrupts traditional historiographies of medical education by making room for schools of medicine for revolutionaries, digital cadavers, emotional medical students, and the world’s first mandatory Indigenous community placement in an accredited medical curriculum. This unique collection of international scholarship honours historian, physician, and professor Jacalyn Duffin for her outstanding contributions to the history of medicine and medical education. An invaluable scholarly resource and teaching tool, Transforming Medical Education offers a provocative study of what it means to teach, learn, and belong in medicine.

Author : Agathe Keller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031496172

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Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World by Agathe Keller Pdf