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The Doctors' Dinner Party

Herausgeber: Kennedy, Philip F; Farrell, Jeremy / Übersetzer: Kennedy, Philip F; Farrell, Jeremy

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Produktbeschreibung

"An eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella set in a medical milieu, [in which] a young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781479818778
• ISBN-10: 1479818771
• Artikelnr.: 63764604

Autorenporträt

Ibn Bül¿n (Author) Ibn Bül¿n (d. 460/1068) was a Christian physician and scholar from Baghdad. Philip F. Kennedy (Edited and Translated by) Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. He is the author of Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition. Jeremy Farrell (Edited and Translated by) Jeremy Farrell holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. His publications analyze diverse aspects of pre-modern Islamic society, including sarcastic speech acts, transgressive modes of piety, and the formation of cooperative networks.