A Literary History of Medicine

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 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, 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

Acknowledgements

Editorial Policy

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Map of the Islamic World ca. 1200

Volume 1 Essays



1 Introductory Remarks



2 Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah: His Life and Career

 Franak Hilloowala



3 ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ: Its Genre and Title

 Geert Jan van Gelder



4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ

 Ignacio Sánchez



5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ

 Ignacio Sánchez



6 Poetry in ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ

 Geert Jan van Gelder



7 The Greek Chapters and Galen

 Simon Swain



8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ

 Emilie Savage-Smith



List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ

Bibliography

General Index to Vol. 1

Glossary of Weights and Measures

Index of Verses to Vol. 2

Index of Qur’anic 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