A Response to Nahyan Fancy ’ s Review

DOI dx.doi.org/10.12658/Nazariyat.3.2.R0002en First, I would like to express my appreciation to Nazariyat for providing this space for a discussion of my book The Medieval Islamic Hospital (2015).1 I would also like to thank Nahyan Fancy for taking the time to pen a ten-page review of it, thereby providing the chance for this discussion.2 In the coming pages, I will offer some remarks on his review, and shed some light on specific points that may have been misunderstood. I will then offer brief and general remarks about certain aspects of my intellectual project that I believe his review may have overlooked. I regret that the tone of Fancy’s review may have gotten in the way of a fruitful intellectual discussion about the priorities of our field. My intention here is to look beyond that tone (and the occasional ad hominem comment) in order to focus on the more pertinent substantive questions.