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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Introduction
The Author, His Name, and His Life
Egypt and Syria in the Thirteenth Century
Medicine
Ibn Abī Usaybiʿah’s Medieval Arabic History of Physicians: Genre and Title
A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians: Contents
Earlier Editions and Translation
Note on Translation and Selection
Editorial Note
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Map
Anecdotes and Antidotes. A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians. A New Translation
Preface of Ibn AbĪ Usaybiʿah
1. The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine
2. Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of that Art
Asclepius
3. The Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius
4. Greek Physicians to whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine
1. Hippocrates (d. c.375 bc)
The Followers of Hippocrates
2. Rufus of Ephesus (active c.100)
3. Dioscorides (d. c.90)
4. Pythagoras (d. c.485 bc)
5. Socrates (469–399 bc)
6. Plato (d. 347 bc)
7. Aristotle (384–322 bc)
5. Physicians from or after the Time of Galen
Galen (d. c.216)
6. The Alexandrian Physicians, their Christian and Other Contemporaries
7. Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period
1. Al-Hārith Ibn Kaladah (d. 634–5)
2. Al-Nadr, Son of Al-Hārith (d. 624)
3. IBN Uthāl (active 670)
4. Hakam Al-Dimashqī (d. 825)
5. ʿīsā Son of Hakam Al-Dimashqī (d. after 839)
6. Tayādhūq (d. c.709)
7. Zaynab, the Physician of the Banū Awd (eighth century)
8. Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period
1. Jūrjis (d. 769)
2. Bukhtīshūʿ Son of Jūrjis (d. probably before 801)
3. Jibrīl Son of Bukhtīshūʿ (d. 827–8)
4. Bukhtīshūʿ Son of Jibrīl (d. 870)
5. Jibrīl IBN ʿubayd Allāh (d. 1006)
6. ʿUbayd Allāh Son of Jibrīl (d. after 1058)
7. Al-Tayfūrī (active 785)
8. Zakariyyā Son of Al-Tayfūrī (active 835)
9. Salmawayh (d. c.841)
10. Māsawayh (d. probably early ninth century)
11. Yūhannā Son of Māsawayh (d. 857)
12. Hunayn Ibn Is’hāq (d. 877)
13. Is’hāq Son of Hunayn (d. 910)
9. Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and their Patrons
10. Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazīrah and Diyār Bakr
1. Yaʿqūb Al-Kindī (d. c.870)
2. Thābit Ibn Qurrah (d. 901)
3. Sinān Son of Thābit Ibn Qurrah (ninth to tenth century)
4. Thābit Son of Sinān (d. 973–4)
5. Sāʿid Ibn Bishr Ibn ʿabdūs (early eleventh century)
6. Ibn Butlān (eleventh century)
7. Ibn Shibl (d. 1081–2)
8. Ibn Safiyyah (twelfth century)
9. Ibn Al-Tilmīdh (d. 1165)
10. Awhad Al-Zamān (Abū l-Barakāt Al-Baghdādī) (d. after 1164)
11. Hibat Allāh Ibn Al-Fadl (d. 1163)
12. Ibn Tūmā (d. 1223)
13. Kamāl Al-Dīn Ibn Yūnus (d. 1242)
11. Physicians in the Lands of the Persians
1. Abū Bakr Al-Rāzī (Rhazes or Rasis) (d. c.925)
2. Al-Shaykh Al-Raʾīs IBN Sīnā (Avicenna) (d. 1037)
3. Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī (d. 1210)
4. Al-Samawʾal (d. c.1174)
12. Physicians of India
1. Shānāq (Cānakya) (c. fourth century bc)
2. Mankah Al-Hindī (Mānikya) (eighth century)
3. Sālih IBN Bahlah Al-Hindī (eighth century)
13. Physicians Who Were Prominent in the Western Lands and Settled There
1. Is’hāq IBN ʿimrān (d. before 908)
2. Is’hāq Al-Isrāʾīlī (d. c.932)
3. IBN Mulūkah (tenth century)
4. Tumlūn (tenth century)
5. Yahyā IBN Is’hāq (tenth century)
6. IBN Juljul (tenth century)
7. Abū L-Salt Umayyah (d. 1134)
8. Abū Marwān IBN Zuhr (d. 1077)
9. Abū L-ʿalāʾ IBN Zuhr, Son of Abū Marwān (d. 1130)
10. ʿAbd Al-Malik IBN Zuhr (Avenzoar), Son of Abū L-ʿAlāʾ (d. 1162)
11. Al-Hafīd, ‘The Grandson’ Abū Bakr IBN Zuhr, Son of ʿAbd Al-Malik (d. 1199)
12. Abū Muhammad IBN Zuhr, Son of Abū Bakr (d. 1205–6)
13. IBN Rushd (Averroes) (d. 1198)
14. Abū L-Hajjāj IBN Mūrātīr (d. between 1213 and 1224)
15. Abū Bakr IBN Abū L-Hasan Al-Zuhrī (d. between 1213 and 1224)
16. IBN Al-Asamm (thirteenth century)
14. Famous Physicians in Egypt
1. Politianus (d. c.802)
2. Al-Hasan IBN Zīrak (d. c.882)
3. Saʿīd IBN Tawfīl (d. 882)
4. Al-Tamīmī (d. after 980)
5. IBN Al-Haytham (Alhazen) (d. c.1039–41)
6. Al-Mubashshir IBN Fātik (active 1048)
7. IBN Ridwān (d. 1061)
8. Salāmah IBN Rahmūn (active c.1117)
9. IBN Jumayʿ (d. c.1198)
10. IBN Shūʿah (d. 1183)
11. Maimonides (Al-Raʾīs Mūsā) (d. 1204)
12. Ibrāhīm, The Son of Maimonides (d. between 1234 and 1241)
13. IBN Abī L-Bayān (d. 1236)
14. Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd (active c.1184)
15. Abū Hulayqah (d. after 1250)
16. Abū Saʿīd Muhammad, Son of Abū Hulayqah (active in 1269)
17. Asʿad Al-Dīn (d. 1237)
15. Famous Syrian Physicians
1. Al-Yabrūdī (d. c.1058)
2. Abū L-Hakam (d. 1155)
3. Sukkarah Al-Halabī (twelfth century)
4. IBN Al-Salāh (d. c.1145)
5. Shihāb Al-Dīn Al-Suhrawardī (d. 1191)
6. Rafīʿ Al-Dīn Al-Jīlī (d. 1244)
7. Shams Al-Dīn Al-Khusrawshāhī (d. 1254)
8. Sayf Al-Dīn Al-āmidī (d. 1233)
9. IBN Al-Mutrān (d. 1191)
10. Ridwān IBN Al-Sāʿātī (d. c.1230)
11. Radī Al-Dīn Al-Rahbī (d. 1233)
12. ʿAbd Al-Latīf Al-Baghdādī (d. 1231)
13. Yaʿqūb IBN Siqlāb (d. 1228)
14. Rashīd Al-Dīn IBN Al-Sūrī (d. 1242)
15. IBN Raqīqah (d. 1238)
16. Amīn Al-Dawlah (d. 1250–1)
17. Al-Dakhwār (d. 1230)
18. My Paternal Uncle, Rashīd Al-Dīn ʿAlī IBN Khalīfah (d. 1219)
19. Najm Al-Dīn IBN Al-Minfākh (d. 1254)
20. ʿIzz Al-Dīn IBN Al-Suwaydī (d. 1291)
Appendix 1: Weights and Measures
Appendix 2: Gazetteer of Place Names
Appendix 3: Concordance of Biographies with Those in the Full Text
Appendix 4: List Of Sources Used By Ibn AbĪ UsaybiʿAh
Appendix 5: Illustrations and Diagrams
Explanatory Notes
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
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