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Book/Printed Material Green Emerald and Red Ruby.

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Title

  • Green Emerald and Red Ruby.

Summary

  • ʻAbd al-ʻAziz ibn Ahmad Qurashi was a prolific Indian author of the early 19th century. He composed works on Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, and medicine. Zumurrud akhḍar wa yāqūt aḥmar (Green emerald and red ruby) is one of ʻAbd al-ʻAziz's medical works. The author starts with afflictions of the brain and related therapies. He then proceeds to afflictions of the eyes, the ears, and organs of the body before concluding the work with a discussion of various fevers and of related remedies. In his introduction, ʻAbd al-ʻAziz praises Hippocrates and Galen as servants of the science of medicine. He lists several medical texts, including Tuḥfat al-Mu'minīn (Offering to the pious) by Hakim Mu'min Tunkabuni (flourished in the 17th century) and al-Ṭibb al-akbar (The great [text] on medicine) by Muhammad Arzani (flourished late 17th--early 18th centuries), as sources. ʻAbd al-ʻAziz describes his text as an abbreviation of another of his medical works, "The Elixir," which had remained incomplete because of unnamed troubles that drove the author to Multan (in present day Pakistan). The author states that he completed this work in Dhū al-Qaʻda 1228 (March--April 1866) in Multan. The manuscript copy contains a colophon in Persian which states that it was completed on the morning of Muharram 13, 1301 AH (November 13, 1883). The present manuscript contains copious marginal notes in Persian. It is written in clear naskh, with rubrications, and catchwords in Arabic.

Names

  • Qurashi, ʻAbd al-ʻAziz ibn Ahmad, flourished 19th century Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1883-11-13.

Headings

  • -  India
  • -  Pakistan
  • -  1866
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Diseases
  • -  Medicine
  • -  Medicine, Arab

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 115 folios ; 255 x 165 millimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: A.Z. Iskandar, A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967).
  • -  Original resource at: Wellcome Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic and Persian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667338

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Chicago citation style:

Qurashi, ʻAbd Al-ʻAziz Ibn Ahmad, Flourished 19Th Century Author. Green Emerald and Red Ruby. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -11-13, 1883] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667338/.

APA citation style:

Qurashi, ʻ. A. I. A. (1883) Green Emerald and Red Ruby. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -11-13] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667338/.

MLA citation style:

Qurashi, ʻAbd Al-ʻAziz Ibn Ahmad, Flourished 19Th Century Author. Green Emerald and Red Ruby. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -11-13, 1883] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667338/>.