Literary History of Medicine

Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA, was Professor of the History of Islamic Science, University of Oxford. Publications include A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, I: Medicine (2012) and, with Y. Rapoport, Lost Maps of the Caliphs (2019)Simon Swain, FBA, is Professor of Classics, University of Warwick. Publications include Hellenism & Empire (1996), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon’s Physigonomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007), Economy, Family and Society from Rome to Islam (2013).Geert Jan van Gelder, PhD Leiden 1982; Lecturer in Arabic, University of Groningen, 1975–1998; Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, 1998–2012. Fellow of the KNAW and the British Academy; author of many publications on Classical Arabic literature.Contributors: Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, Franak Hilloowala

"This edition will hopefully become the standard basis for research on the ʿUyūn, especially in the Arab world. The fact that it is published open access may assist in this. The same can be said for the translation, which finally makes Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s text available in full to historians of medicine as well as other scholars who do not have access to the Arabic text. [...] All in all, the edition is a great contribution to scholarship, to be received with gratitude by a wide range of scholars." Remke Kruk, in Bulletin of the School and Oriental and African Studies 84/1 (2021)"Cette publication qui est amenée à devenir la nouvelle édition et traduction de référence des ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ d’Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, témoigne de l’importance du travail collectif pour renouveler l’approche de sources connues depuis longtemps mais dont il reste encore beaucoup à apprendre. Le principal apport de cette équipe a été de reprendre l’étude de la tradition manuscrite et d’obtenir des résultats nouveaux et utiles à l’histoire du livre médiéval." Audrey Caire, in Codicologie

• AcknowledgementsEditorial PolicyList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsMap of the Islamic World ca. 1200Volume 1 Essays1 Introductory Remarks2 Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah: His Life and CareerFranak Hilloowala3 ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ: Its Genre and TitleGeert Jan van Gelder4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾIgnacio Sánchez5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾIgnacio Sánchez6 Poetry in ʿUyūn al-anbāʾGeert Jan van Gelder7 The Greek Chapters and GalenSimon Swain8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the ʿUyūn al-anbāʾEmilie Savage-SmithList of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s ʿUyūn al-anbāʾBibliographyGeneral Index to Vol. 1Glossary of Weights and MeasuresIndex of Verses to Vol. 2Index of Qur’anic Quotations and Allusions to Vols. 2 and 3Index of Personal Names to Vols. 2 and 3Index of Place Names to Vols. 2 and 3Subject Index to Vols. 2 and 3