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

• Volume 3-1 Annotated English TranslationPrefaceBruce Inksetter1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of MedicineBruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That ArtBruce Inksetter and Simon Swain3 Greek Physicians Descended from AsclepiusBruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sánchez4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of MedicineIgnacio Sánchez and Simon Swain5 Physicians from or after the Time of GalenSimon Swain6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other ContemporariesBruce Inksetter and Simon Swain7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic PeriodBruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid PeriodBruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their PatronsBruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazīrah and Diyār BakrAlasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)