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28 entries match Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500] · Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090]
1854 CE
#6833
[In Persian script] Cheragh haa rewshenaaa der asewl pezeshekea [Illumination of the fundamentals of medicine].
Issued in 1271 A. H. (1854 CE), this entirely lithographed book introduced Western anatomical illustration to Persian culture. As part of an effort to modernize medical education in Persia, medical textbooks such as M…
2010 CE
#8367
Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.
1465 CE
#6819
Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)
In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…
1951 CE
#7164
Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.
1924 CE
#6512
Die Medizin im Avesta.
The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.
1970 CE
#6510.01
Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].
1906 CE
#6506
Die Medizin im Koran.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2007 CE
#13304
Disability in Islamic law.
2010 CE
#7248
Early Medicine, from the body to the stars.
Extensively annotated, magnificently printed catalogue (590pp. in 4to) entirely illustrated in color, of an exhibition of 250 early medical manuscripts, printed books, and related objects from the ancient world to the…
1978 CE
#9248
Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].
1982 CE
#6510.4
Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.
1860 CE
#6504
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
1932 CE
#12051
Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.
"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…
2004 CE
#8312
Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.
The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…
2012 CE
#8262
Mamluks and animals: Veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.
The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world.
2012 CE
#11048
Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
2019 CE
#10777
Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.
2013 CE
#8250
Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.
1998 CE
#8571
Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.
" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…
1973 CE
#9255
Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.
2014 CE
#13528
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
2018 CE
#10776
Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.
1937 CE
#10672
Religion and medicine of the Ga people.
1983 CE
#9095
Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.
1531 CE
#7627
Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.
A Christian physician of Baghdad, Ibn Butlān traveled widely, eventually settling in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene and dietetics, Taqwām al-sihhah (The Almanac of Health) presented a guide to medical regimen in tab…
2015 CE
#9476
The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.
Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
1962 CE
#9254
Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.
Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.
1910 CE
#6511
Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin.
Comprehensive analysis, with thorough bibliographical citations, of classic writings and scholarship in this field, to 1910. Besides medicine and pathology, Includes pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and "medical works i…