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This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on
Jewish medical practitioners in the Muslim world from the 9th to
the 16th century. The biographies are based mainly on information
gathered from the wealth of primary sources found in the Cairo
Geniza (letters, commercial documents, court orders, lists of
donors) and Muslim Arabic sources (biographical dictionaries,
historical and geographical literature). The practitioners come
from various socio-economic strata and lived in urban as well as
rural locations in Muslim countries.Over 600 biographies are
presented, enabling readers to explore issues such as professional,
daily and personal lives; successes and failures; families; Jewish
communities; and inter-religious affairs. Both the biographies and
the accompanying discussion shed light on various views and aspects
of the medicine practised in this period by Muslim, Jews and
Christians.
This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on
600 Jewish medical practitioners in the Muslim world in the 9-16th
centuries. The biographies are based mainly on information gathered
from the wealth of primary sources found in the Cairo Geniza
(letters, commercial documents, court orders, lists of donors) and
Muslim Arabic sources (biographical dictionaries, historical and
geographical literature). The practitioners come from various
socio-economic strata and lived in urban as well as rural locations
in Muslim countries. Both the biographies and the accompanying
discussion shed light on various views and aspects of the medicine
practised in this period by Muslim, Jews and Christians, as well as
issues such as professional, daily and personal lives; successes
and failures; families; Jewish communities; and inter-religious
affairs.
Jerusalem has always been a unique city. Hundreds of millions of
people, believers of the three main monotheistic religions
Christianity, Islam and Judaism, have always looked forward to
visiting, living, dying or even being buried in the Holy City.
Throughout its long history, this city was subject to different
kings, sultans and leaders that ruled the city and its inhabitants.
Simultaneously, the population of the city changed in origin,
habitat, language, culture, and in other aspects of life such as
quality of the medical system, physicians and remedies that were
used. This book is a reflection of the growing academic interest in
the history of this fascinating city in general and of medicine in
Jerusalem in particular. The interest that the academic community
has had in the subject of medicine in the holy city can be measured
by the number of articles and books that have been published,
academic courses and seminars that have been taught and conventions
that have been held in various academic institutes in Israel.The
book deals with natural curative substances and healing materials
used by the residents of Jerusalem throughout the ages, but its
scope takes in the use of materia medica in the Land of Israel and
throughout the Levant in this time span. The study represents an
intensive and systematic historical study of the medicinal
substances that were used by the inhabitants and the visitors of
the City of Jerusalem. It deals with the description of the various
substances and their uses. It also deals with comparisons of such
uses in traditional and folk medicine of several ethnic groups of
present day in the region and in other parts of the world. Part A
covers the information gathered from different historical sources
of the medieval and early Ottoman periods (10th-18th centuries.
Part B refers to specific subject matters including institutes and
historical periods that deserve special attention concerning the
uses of medicinal substances in the city of Jerusalem (including
chapters on traditional and folk medicine substances still used in
Jerusalem as well a modern overview.Three appendices provide
information concerning the historical periods dealt with in the
book, the sources, which are mentioned and quoted in Part A, and a
list of medicinal substances used in Jerusalem from the 10th to the
18th century. A bibliography, list of abbreviations, and indices
conclude the study.
"Modern Medicine in the Holy Land" provides an in-depth assessment
of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the
nineteenth century, and finds these institutions made great
contributions to the modernization of the country. The large
numbers of Europeans, spearheaded by British missionaries, who
began to visit Palestine and the Levant, brought modern medical
practices to the region. The driving factor for this change was the
medical enterprise of the London Mission and the series of
hospitals it established. This pioneering initiative led to the
development of competition among the Great Powers in Palestine and
by the end of the nineteenth century there were scores of medical
institutions that were representative of the modern age. Using a
wide selection of primary sources from both Britain and Israel,
Perry and Lev bring together for the first time the history of
medical service men who fought to improve the health of the
inhabitants of the Holy Land under the most difficult conditions of
climate and disease.
Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval
Mediterranean medicineFor 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.Key FeaturesAssesses the assimilation of
theoretical and practical Greek, Indian and Persian medicine into
Arabic medical cultureReconstructs and presents a list of medicinal
substances distributed by the Arabs as a result of their
conquestsTells the stories of 33 new Arabic drugs within the
context of their natural historyDescribes the contribution of the
Arabs to the daily medieval cultural material (medicine, cosmetics,
perfumery, dyeing of materials, industrial products and precious
stones)Includes 35 colour illustrations
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