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Seven Medical Summaries by AbÅ« l-Faraǧ b. aá¹-Ṭayyib
Analysis, Synthesis and the Problem of Streamlining Galen
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Elite medical education in eleventh-century Baghdad was largely text driven. Complex scholarly and textual practices define the writings of AbÅ« l-Faraǧ Ibn aá¹-Ṭayyib (d. 1043), chief physician at the main hospital in Baghdad. This critical edition of seven of his medical summaries for advanced students offers a new basis for understanding what Arabic medical education looked like at this time. A major historical and text-analytical introduction situates the edited and translated summaries among other medical genres and documents, and shows how these teaching documents would have been utilized both in the authorâs lifetime and in subsequent centuries.
Nicholas Allan Aubin, Ph.D. (2019), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has taught and written on many aspects of Greco-Arabic philosophy and science. He is the author of Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy (DeGruyter, 2024).
Scholars of the history of medicine, esp. Greco-Arabic-Latin medicine. Libraries and institutions serving researchers, graduate and undergraduate students interested in the above.