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 3-2 Annotated English Translation



11 Physicians in the Lands of the Persians (Bilād al-ʿajam)

 Alasdair Watson, N. Peter Joosse and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)



12 Physicians of India

 Bruce Inksetter and Emilie Savage-Smith



13 Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There

 Ignacio Sánchez and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)



14 Famous Physicians amongst Those in Egypt

 Franak Hilloowala, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)



15 Famous Syrian Physicians

 N. Peter Joosse and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)

 The 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