Efraim Lev

Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World

A Collective Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on 600 Jewish medical practitioners in the 9-16th century Muslim world. Both the biographies and the accompanying discussion shed light on both the medicine of the period and practitioners' professional, daily and personal lives; Jewish communities; and inter-religious affairs.

Produktdetails

• Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 804g
• ISBN-13: 9781474483988
• ISBN-10: 1474483984
• Artikelnr.: 63924681

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Notes on names, transcription, abbreviations, citations, bibliography, main historical periods and Muslim rulers
1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Prosopography of Jewish practitioners
4. Professional, social, geographical, religious and economic aspects of the Jewish medical practitioners (mainly physician)
5. Epilogue
Bibliography
Acknowledgements.