Mamluks and Animals
Biographical note
Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Ph.D. (2006), Tel Aviv University, teaches Arabic, Islamic Culture and History of Art at Ben-Gurion University and Levinsky College of Education. He has published a book of poetry and several studies on veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.
Readership
Institutes of Islamic studies, history of medicine, history of the Middle East and animal studies, academic libraries, public libraries, schools of veterinary medicine, graduate and undergraduate students, educated laymen.
€399.00$555.00
The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from past centuries provide an unprecedented access to the reality of health care as understood and practiced by professional doctors, lay healers, private households, pharmacists, magicians and itinerant healers.
€109.00$141.00
A study of the text and context of Minhāj al-dukkān, a thirteenth-century manual for pharmacists, drawing on pharmaco-medical, legal, historical, biographical, and literary sources to provide a full and nuanced view of a usually invisible profession.
€190.00$246.00
The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine.
€213.00$276.00
This catalogue comprises full descriptions of the Arabic manuscripts which entered the Wellcome collections in 1986. A new type of the catalogue entry makes the book useful for specialists in various fields from conservators to historians of medical ethics.
€113.00$146.00
In this publication, the extensive but cautious use of opium in a variety of remedies by Baghdad physicians in the ninth century shows an amazing awareness of the therapeutic usefulness and potential dangers of the opiate.
€100.00$130.00
This volume provides surprising new insights into the interrelation of medical practice, public health and politics in 19th century Iran, esp. the assimilation of Western medicine into indigenous systems.
€119.00$154.00
The first descriptive guide to the important Wellcome collection of manuscripts containing texts on Sanskrit scientific manuscripts, covering well over a thousand manuscripts.
€115.00$149.00
Conjugal Love in India is a study of traditional Hindu ideas about love in the domestic abode. The work includes the texts, translations, and notes of the two principal Sanskrit treatises on the subject, Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaôa, along with an introduction.
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