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.