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Book/Printed Material Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge.

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Title

  • Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge.

Summary

  • Natījat al-maṭlūbāt fī ma'rifat al-ḥummayāt (Outcome of the quest regarding the knowledge of fevers) is a rare medical work on fevers. The author, Bulus ibn Qustantin al-Malaki al-Shaburi, is known only through this one surviving work, which is composed in 30 chapters and a conclusion. The chapters treat fevers in all of their varieties, including sunukhus (from the Greek synochus, meaning continued or unremitting fever) and al-diqq (hectic or deep-rooted fever). The conclusion deals with the treatment of side-effects, including al-sahr (sleeplessness), al-hathayan (delirium), and al-aṭash al-shadīd (intense thirst). In the introduction, the author mentions some of the medical texts upon which he based his work, including Ghāyat al-itqān (The limit of improvement) by Ibn Sallum (died 1081 AH, 1670-71). This allows for a rough dating of the Natījat al-maṭlūbāt to the end of the 17th or the early 18th century. The manuscript presented here includes catchwords and rubrication, and is dated to 1168 AH (1754-55). The title page includes what appears to be an erroneous title al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-ḥummayāt (A compendium on fevers).

Names

  • Shaburi, Bulus ibn Qustantin al-Malaki Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1754 to 1755]

Headings

  • -  1670 to 1715
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Fever
  • -  Medicine, Arab

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: "Shaburi, Bulus ibn Qustantin al-Malaki," in A Shelflist of Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health). https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/pdf/shelflist.pdf.
  • -  Original resource at: Wellcome Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667371

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Shaburi, Bulus Ibn Qustantin Al-Malaki Author. Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1755, 1754] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667371/.

APA citation style:

Shaburi, B. I. Q. A. A. (1754) Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1755] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667371/.

MLA citation style:

Shaburi, Bulus Ibn Qustantin Al-Malaki Author. Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1755, 1754] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667371/>.