Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World: A Collective Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474483971)

This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on Jewish medical practitioners in the Muslim world from the 9th to the 16th century. The biographies are based mainly on information gathered from the wealth of primary sources found in the Cairo Geniza (letters, commercial documents, court orders, lists of donors) and Muslim Arabic sources (biographical dictionaries, historical and geographical literature). The practitioners come from various socio-economic strata and lived in urban as well as rural locations in Muslim countries.Both the biographies and the accompanying discussion shed light on various views and aspects of the medicine practised in this period by Muslim, Jews and Christians, as well as issues such as professional, daily and personal lives; successes and failures; families; Jewish communities; and inter-religious affairs.

Author: Efraim Lev
ISBN-10: 1474483976
ISBN-13: 9781474483971
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2021
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2022