Acknowledgements
Our project of editing and translating the Arabic original of books III through V of Ibn al-JazzÄrâs medical handbook ZÄd al-musÄfir was generously funded by âDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaftâ (DFG) between 2020 and 2023 (Project no. 447247604, BO 1644/31â1, title: âAbschluss der kritischen Edition und englischen Ãbersetzung von Ibn al-ǦazzÄrs ZÄd al-musÄfir (Buch III bis V) nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien und online-Veröffentlichung des Gesamtwerksâ). We are grateful to both the scientific board and the reviewers for giving us the opportunity of editing this voluminous text and thereby completing a goal pursued for decades.
We are very delighted to have had the opportunity to publish the book as part of Brillâs renowned series âIslamic History and Civilization.â We extend our heartfelt thanks to the series editors, Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Sebastian Günther, for accepting our volume. We are also very grateful to the anonymous reviewer for thoroughly checking the manuscript. Furthermore, we want to thank Brillâs staff, particularly Mona Saif and Teddi Dols, as well as Sanne Hadfy-Kovács (TAT Zetwerk), for all their efforts. We are especially grateful to Elizabeth Crawford for copy editing our translation and introduction.
Gerrit Bos and Fabian Käs
October, 2nd 2025