The Oriental Tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia - Pormann, Peter
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This study of the reception of Paul of Aegina's handbook (or "pragmateia") in the Syriac and Arabic traditions provides fascinating new insights into Greek-Syriac-Arabic translation techniques and the impact of Greek medical theory on the development of Islamic medicine.

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This study of the reception of Paul of Aegina's handbook (or "pragmateia") in the Syriac and Arabic traditions provides fascinating new insights into Greek-Syriac-Arabic translation techniques and the impact of Greek medical theory on the development of Islamic medicine.
Autorenporträt
Peter E. Pormann, D.Phil. (2002) in Classics, University of Oxford, is a Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on Islamic medicine and its Greek antecedents, notably the Late Antique Alexandrian medical tradition. He has received The Hellenic Foundation's 2003 Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom, in the Byzantine/Medieval History category.