Author
Prof. Peter E Pormann is primarily concerned with the transmission of the Greek medical and scientific heritage into the Islamic world. He has published on medicine and philosophy in Late Antique Alexandria, Greek-Syriac -Arabic translation technique, the history of mental illness and hospital provisions in tenth-century Baghdad, and medieval Islamic medicine more generally.
At Manchester, he is currently pursuing a major research project entitled ‘Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms’, funded by the ERC (€1.5m).
Together with Peter Adamson, he recently finished an English translation of al-Kindi’s philosophical works for OUP. Other projects include the edition, translation, and study of the Medical Compendium by al-Kaskar (fl. ca. 920s); the edition of the Arabic version of Galen’s On the Affected Parts together with colleagues at Cairo University; and the edition and translation of the Arabic version of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’ (with colleagues at Warwick)
He also has an interest in Hebrew studies and Jewish life in England during the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and is currently preparing his catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for the press (to be published by Boydell & Brewer).
Finally, he works on the reception of Classical literature and culture in the modern Arab world, and serves as one of the four executive editors for the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.
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Medieval Islamic Medicine [Paperback]
Peter E. Pormann (Author), Emilie Savage-Smith (Author)
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Book Description
The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. It is a story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting many people from kings to the common crowd. This tradition formed the roots from which modern Western medicine arose. Contrary to the stereotypical picture, medieval Islamic medicine was not simply a conduit for Greek ideas, but a venue for innovation and change.
Medieval Islamic Medicine is organized around five topics: the emergence of medieval Islamic medicine and its intense crosspollination with other cultures; the theoretical medical framework; the function of physicians within the larger society; medical care as seen through preserved case histories; and the role of magic and devout religious invocations in scholarly as well as everyday medicine. A concluding chapter on the “afterlife” concerns the impact of this tradition on modern European medical practices, and its continued practice today. The book includes an index of persons and their books; a timeline of developments in East and West; and a section on further reading.
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