On the Medical Works of Barhebraeus: With a Description of the Abridgement of Ḥunain’s Medical Questions
While the Syriac polymath Gregory Barhebraeus (1225/6–86) is better known for his contributions in other fields, his original training was probably in medicine, and he is known to have written a number of works on the subject. No Syriac work on medicine by Barhebraeus is known to have survived, but...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 252-276 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Barhebraeus 1226-1286
/ Medicine
/ Syria
/ Arabia
/ Ḥunain Ibn-Isḥāq 809-873
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa KDF Orthodox Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Barhebraeus
Syriac medicine
Arabic medicine
Ḥunain b. Isḥāqs
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| Summary: | While the Syriac polymath Gregory Barhebraeus (1225/6–86) is better known for his contributions in other fields, his original training was probably in medicine, and he is known to have written a number of works on the subject. No Syriac work on medicine by Barhebraeus is known to have survived, but four such works written in Arabic have, and references to matters related to medicine are also to be found in his works in other fields. In this article, we present a brief overview of what is known about the medical works of Barhebraeus, along with a somewhat more detailed description of one of the surviving works, namely his abridgement of Ḥunain’s Medical Questions. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | In: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-01501005 |