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Zohar Amar, Efraim Lev - Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Medicine, Inbunden

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Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Medicine

Av Zohar Amar, Efraim Lev

Del i serien Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

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For more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution of Arab medicine and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective of materia medica – a reliable indication of the contribution of this medical legacy. Focusing on the main substances introduced and traded by the Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean – including Ambergris, camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, sandalwood and turmeric – the authors show how they enriched the existing inventory of drugs influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, they look at how these substances merged with the development and distribution of new technologies and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages such as textiles, paper, dyeing and tanning, and with the new trends, demands and fashions regarding spices, perfumes, ornaments (gemstones) and foodstuffs some of which can be found in our modern-day food basket.
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Professor Zohar Amar is Director of the Unit on the History of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and author of many monographs and books. His fields of research and teaching especially include: history of the nature in ancient and pre-modern times (particularly in Jewish sources); material culture and everyday life in the Middle Ages; the history of medicine and Ethnopharmacology. Efraim Lev is Professor in the Department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He had a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London and spent research periods as Overseas Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, Cambridge. His main fields of interest and research are medieval Arabic pharmacology and medicine, and ethno-pharmacology. He won various prizes including the George Urdang Medal for pharmaco-historical writings in 2012.

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‘Arabic culture provided the melting pot for the medical substances from the West and the East which became the staple ingredients of pre-modern medicine. Amar and Lev are to be congratulated for tracing the origins of natural medicaments and the routes that they followed from South East Asia and India to the Middle East, and from one end of the Mediterranean to the other.’

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