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Book/Printed Material Medical Questions.

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Title

  • Medical Questions.

Summary

  • The title of the manuscript presented here is listed in the colophon as al-Masā'il al-ṭibbīya (Medical questions). Its catechismal form can be traced to the great ninth century physician al-Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-'Ibadi (circa 809-73) and his Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb li al-mutaʻllimīn (Questions on medicine for learners). Al-Hunayn composed his influential text with its question-and-answer format-imitated in style and content by subsequent authors-primarily for medical students. Among the best-known works inspired by al-Hunayn's work is Talkhīṣ al-Masā'il (The abridgment of al-Masā'il) written by Abu Sahl Saʻid al-Nili (died 1029) in three treatises: al-Umūr al-ṭabīʻīya (On matters pertaining to nature); al-Adwīya (On pharmacology); and al-Nabḍ (On the pulse). Also well known is the text by Abu Nasr Saʻid al-Masihi (died 1223 or 1224), al-Iqtiḍāb ʼalā ṭarīq al-masʼala wa al-jawāb (Summary of medicine by means of questions and answers), written in the form of seven medical treatises. Abu Nasr also wrote a second and similar work, Intikhāb al-iqtiḍāb (Selections from al-Iqtiḍāb). The manuscript presented here belongs to the same genre of medical texts inspired by al-Hunayn's work but is incomplete. It is missing the first 25 chapters (out of a total of 279) as well as other portions of the text. The table of contents appended to the end of the manuscript refers to the work as al-Iqtiḍāb (The summary), and indeed this work shares some chapter headings and portions of the text from al-Masihi's work. Despite these similarities, the two works are distinct, as can be seen from their tables of contents, which differ considerably. The present manuscript, which was copied in 1808, appears to be shorter than al-Masihi's al-Iqtiḍāb, raising the possibility that it is a copy of Intikhāb al-iqtiḍāb, though this identification is uncertain because of the incomplete nature of the manuscript.

Names

  • Abu Sahl Saʻid al-Masihi, died 1223 or 1224 Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1808.

Headings

  • -  1100 to 1223
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Codex
  • -  Medicine
  • -  Medicine, Medieval
  • -  Naskh script

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 148 pages.
  • -  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

  • 2021667388

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Abu Sahl SaʻId Al-Masihi, Died 1223 Or 1224 Associated Name. Medical Questions. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1808] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667388/.

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Abu Sahl SaʻId Al-Masihi, D. 1. O. 1. A. N. (1808) Medical Questions. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667388/.

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Abu Sahl SaʻId Al-Masihi, Died 1223 Or 1224 Associated Name. Medical Questions. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1808] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667388/>.