Mamluks and Animals

Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam

Housni Alkhateeb Shehada (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

596 Seiten

2012
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-23405-5 (ISBN)

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In Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam Housni Alkhateeb Shehada offers the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Islamic world, with special emphasis on the Mamluk period (1250-1517).

Housni Alkhateeb Shehada's Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam is the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Islamic world, with special emphasis on the Mamluk period (1250-1517). Based on a large variety of sources, it is a history of a scientific field that is also examined from social and cultural perspectives. Horses, as well as birds of prey used for hawking and falconry, were at the centre of the veterinary literature of that period, but the treatment and cure of other animals was not totally neglected. The Mamluk period is presented here as the time when veterinary medicine reached its pinnacle in medieval Islam and often even surpassed human medicine.

Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Ph.D. (2006), Tel Aviv University, teaches Arabic, Islamic Culture and History of Art at Ben-Gurion University and Levinsky College of Education. He has published a book of poetry and several studies on veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.11.2012
Reihe/Serie	Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series ; 11
Zusatzinfo	32 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1111 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Veterinärmedizin
ISBN-10	90-04-23405-5 / 9004234055
ISBN-13	978-90-04-23405-5 / 9789004234055
Zustand	Neuware