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

Volume 2-2 Arabic Edition



11 Physicians in the Lands of the Persians (Bilād al-ʿajam) (الباب الحادي عشر في طبقات الأطباء الذين ظهروا في بلاد العجم)

 Alasdair Watson, N. Peter Joosse, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez



12 Physicians of India (الباب الثاني عشر في طبقات الأطباء الذين كانوا من الهند)

 Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez



13 Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There (الباب الثالث عشر فى طبقات الأطباء الذين ظهروا في بلاد المغرب وأقاموا بها)

 Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder



14 Famous Physicians amongst Those in Egypt (الباب الرابع عشر في طبقات الأطباء المشهورين من أطباء ديار مصر)

 Franak Hilloowala, Emilie Savage-Smith, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez



15 Famous Syrian Physicians (الباب الخامس عشر في طبقات الأطباء المشهورين من أطباء الشام)

 N. Peter Joosse, Geert Jan van Gelder and Ignacio Sánchez

 Addendum to 15.49: Biography of Amīn al-Dawlah in Version 1



Appendix 1: Ibn al-Nafīs

 Ignacio Sánchez



Appendix 2: Additional Marginalia

 Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder