Bibliophilia in Ottoman Aleppo: Muḥammad al-Taqawī and his Medical Library

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL-TIN AL NISHABURI

Study and Recognition of Muslim Sage Abdullah Azdi and His Medical Dictionary Called “Kitāb Al-ma”

This study seeks to identify one of the pioneers of traditional clinical medicine named Abdullah Azdi and his medical dictionary. This research is an analytical study. The focus of the search was on two keywords, Abdullah Azdi and Kitab al-Ma'ma, but the scope of the search included all appropriate terms such as: medicine, Bu Ali Sina, traditional medicine, medical dictionary, ethics, and medic...

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL- TIN AL NISHABURI

Medical Healers in Ottoman Egypt, 1517–1805

Although the history of modern medical reforms in nineteenth-century Egypt has received considerable attention from historians and scholars, the history of medicine when the country was under Ottoman rule from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, is still largely unexplored.1 In the opinion of many scholars this was a time when the medical sciences in Egypt declined, qualified learned physi...

Reconstructed materia medica of the Medieval and Ottoman al-Sham.

This article presents the results of a study of the medicinal uses of natural substances in medieval and Ottoman al-Sham (the Levant). It involved a meticulous survey of a wide range of historical sources spanning approximately 1100 years and including medical and pharmacological literature, travelogues, geographical and agricultural literature, dictionaries, archives, the Genizah and other med...