This book is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook on pediatric pulmonology. Edited by Pablo Bertrand and Ignacio Sánchez, renowned academics and pediatricians from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it encompasses five sections and 74 chapters, presenting and dis…
Abū l-Faḍl Ḥasdāy b. Yūsuf Ibn Ḥasdāy (fl. second half of the fifth/eleventh century) was an Andalusī man of letters, physician, and wazīr born, probably in Saragossa, to one of the most prominent Jewish families of al-Andalus. His grandfather was the famous Ḥasdāy b. Isḥāq b. S…
Abū Jaʿfar Yūsuf b. Aḥmad Ibn Ḥasdāy b. Yūsuf al-Isrāʾīlī (d. c. 530/1136) was an Andalusī physician, philosopher, and commentator of the works of Hippocrates and Galen. He lived in Saragossa, Alexandria, and Cairo. Information about his life is scarce and comes almost exclusive…
Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi (d. 342/953–4 or 356/966–7) was an Andalusī physician, astronomer, and poet, nephew of the famous man of letters Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi (d. 328/940), the author of the Kitāb al-ʿiqd al-farīd (“The unique necklace”). Information abou…