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This book offers an annotated English translation of one of the earliest dispensatories ever written in the Arabic language, viz. the small version of the Aqrābāḏīn composed by the Nestorian physician Sābūr ibn Sahl (d. 869 CE). The translation is based on the edition of the Arabic text as published in volume 16 of the IPTS series, which in turn is based on the oldest handwritten witness of Arabic pharmacy known so far. The translation is framed by a detailed introductory study of the subject, and by various glossaries which make this important source text accessible from both the Arabic and the English side. The book thus marks the first serious attempt at fully translating an early Arabic dispensatory into a modern Western language.
Price: $182.00
Pages: 242
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
28 May 2003
ISBN: 9789004129962
Format: Other
Sabur ibn Sahl's Dispensatory in the Recension of the Adudi Hospital depicts an important stage in the development of pharmacopoeias in the Muslim East. Leigh Chipman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oliver Kahl, Ph.D. (1993) in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, has specialized in the history of Arabic science, particularly alchemy, medicine and pharmacy. He has published widely on these subjects, including Sābūr ibn Sahl. Dispensatorium parvum (Brill, 1994).