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This work offers a critical analysis of the Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in Rhazes’ (d. 925 CE) Comprehensive Book (or al-Kitāb al-Ḥāwī), a hugely famous and highly unusual medico-pharmaceutical encyclopedia originally written in Arabic. All text material appears in full Arabic with English translations throughout, whilst the traceable Indian fragments are represented here, for the first time, in both the original Sanskrit and corresponding English translations. The philological core of the book is framed by a detailed introductory study on the transmission of Indian, Syrian and Iranian medicine and pharmacy to the Arabs, and by extensive bilingual glossaries of relevant Arabic and Sanskrit terms as well as Latin botanical identifications.
The World Award for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran has selected this title as one the best books of the year 2015 in the field of Islamic/ Iranian Studies.
The World Award for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran has selected this title as one the best books of the year 2015 in the field of Islamic/ Iranian Studies.
Price: $261.00
Pages: 488
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
09 April 2015
ISBN: 9789004290259
Format: Hardcover
Winner of the 24th I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year
"... The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes adds new, remarkable knowledge and references to the corpus and history of Arabic/Islamic medicine, and it is a worthwhile addition to the personal library of any researcher of the history of medicine in general." - Ayman Yasin Atat, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113/2 (2018)
"... The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes adds new, remarkable knowledge and references to the corpus and history of Arabic/Islamic medicine, and it is a worthwhile addition to the personal library of any researcher of the history of medicine in general." - Ayman Yasin Atat, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113/2 (2018)
Oliver Kahl, Ph.D. (1993), University of Manchester, is currently affiliated to the Department of Semitology at the University of Marburg. His work is concerned with the history of Islamic science, and notably with the origins of Arabic medicine and pharmacy.