Book Description
Catalogue of all Arabic manuscripts in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Plates are facsimiles from selected Arabic works.
Author : Wellcome Historical Medical Library
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Library catalogs
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Catalogue of all Arabic manuscripts in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Plates are facsimiles from selected Arabic works.
Author : Iskandar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004660550
Author : A. Z. Iskandar
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781860646201
For centuries the development of medical science was beholden to the world of Islamic culture for the discovery, classification, and recording of human ailments and the remedies available in medieval times. The 197 Arabic manuscripts—catalogued in this volume and containing 245 works devoted to the medicine and science of the medieval Muslim era—comprise part of the rich collection of Arabic manuscripts preserved in the Wellcome Library. The volume includes items from all the major medieval authors in the history of medicine in the Islamic world and describes the earliest examples of their work.
Author : A. Z. Iskandar
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004069183
Author : Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London, England)
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Islam and science
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Author : Jack Hartnell
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 178283270X
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.
Author : Jamil Ahmad
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medicine, Arab
ISBN : 9788174360526
A useful book on the Graeco-Arab medical system of 'Unani' based on the balance of the humours in the body. Also has an informative chapter on home remedies.
Author : Roberta Casagrande-Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691181845
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World from February 14, 2018-May 13, 2018.
Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0141965010
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements of the ancient Greeks were not matched until the European Renaissance in the 16th century, a 1,000-year period dismissed as the Dark Ages. In the ninth-century, however, the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Ma'mun, created the greatest centre of learning the world had ever seen, known as Bayt al-Hikma, the House of Wisdom. The scientists and philosophers he brought together sparked a period of extraordinary discovery, in every field imaginable, launching a golden age of Arabic science. Few of these scientists, however, are now known in the western world. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a polymath who outshines everyone in history except Leonardo da Vinci? The Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system? Or the 13th-century Andalucian physician Ibn al-Nafees, who correctly described blood circulation 400 years before William Harvey? Iraqi Ibn al-Haytham who practised the modern scientific method 700 years before Bacon and Descartes, and founded the field of modern optics before Newton? Or even ninth-century zoologist al-Jahith, who developed a theory of natural selection a thousand years before Darwin? The West needs to see the Islamic world through new eyes and the Islamic world, in turn, to take pride in its extraordinarily rich heritage. Anyone who reads this book will understand why.
Author : A. Z. Iskandar
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1984
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