"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. It uses new manuscript evidence in order to explore the crucial…
"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. It uses new manuscript evidence in order to explore the crucial…
Introduction
by Pormann, Peter E., Chipman, Leigh, Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri
fromIntellectual History of the Islamicate World
The emergence of Islamic medicine -- Medical theory -- Physicians and society -- Practice -- Popular medicine -- Afterlife.
