Jewish medical practitioners in the Medieval Muslim world : a collective biography.

Lev, Efraim.

Jewish medical practitioners in the Medieval Muslim world : a collective biography. - 1 online resource. - Non-Muslim contributions to Islamic civilisation .

Includes bibliographies and index.

This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on 600 Jewish medical practitioners in the 9-16th century Muslim world. Both the biographies and the accompanying discussion shed light on both the medicine of the period and practitioners' professional, daily and personal lives; Jewish communities; and inter-religious affairs.



9781474484008


Jewish physicians--History--Islamic countries--To 1500.
Jewish physicians--Islamic countries--Biography.
Medicine, Medieval--Islamic countries.


Electronic Books.

R144 / .J495 2021