Philosophy and Medicine in the Islamic World
This week, a book I edited together with Peter Pormann on Philosophy and Medicine in the Islamic world appeared. It's available from the Warburg Institute. Here is the table of contents:
Introduction
PETER ADAMSON AND PETER E. PORMANN
Philosophical Topics in Medieval Arabic Medical Discourse: Problems and Prospects
PETER E. PORMANN
Hippocrates of Cos in Arabic Gnomologia
OLIVER OVERWIEN
Length and Shortness of Life Between Philosophy and Medicine: The Arabic Aristotle and his Medical Readers
ROTRAUD HANSBERGER
Al-Ǧāḥiẓ, Falsafa and the Arabic Hippocrates
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Early Kalām and the Medical Tradition
GREGOR SCHWARB
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī on Vision
PAULINE KOETSCHET
The Consolations of Philosophy: Abū Zayd al-Balḫī and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī
on Sorrow and Anger
PETER ADAMSON AND HANS HINRICH BIESTERFELDT
Beyond the Disciplines of Medicine and Philosophy: Greek and Arabic Thinkers on the Nature of Plant Life
AILEEN DAS
Al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarī: Compendia between Medicine and Philosophy
ELVIRA WAKELNIG
Cosmic, Corporeal and Civil Regencies: al-Fārābī’s anti-Galenic Defence
of Hierarchical Cardiocentrism
BADR EL-FEKKAK
The Small Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn al-ṣaġīr fī l-ṭibb) Ascribed to Avicenna
RAPHAELA VEIT
ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān on the Philosophical Distinction of Medicine
HANS HINRICH BIESTERFELDT
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