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• Medicine, Arab [Browse]

Summary note

Compendium of medicine in five bābs.

Notes

• Incompl.: the text breaks off in the 3rd bāb.
• Text is attributed to al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Shāmī al-Mutaṭabbib (fol. 3a).
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, col. 836 ascribes this work to Mahdī ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabīrī al-Yamanī; Brockelmann, GAL, II, 242, SII, 252, and Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam, p. 188, to Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanawbarī, d. 815/1412. Aleppo, p. 193sqq. (al-Ṣanbarī); Fihris al-kutub al-mawjūdah bi-al-Maktabah al-Azharīyah, VI, 113sq. (al-Ṣabīrī); Chester Beatty Library: A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts, no. 4130/6; Kāẓim., p. 276; Fihrist-i nusakh-i khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-i Millī, IX, no. 1179; Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah fī al-Khizānah al-ʻĀmmah bi-al-Rabāṭ al-Fatḥ, 2nd ser., nos. 2674-2677; Tehran-Fihrist-i Kitābkhānah-i Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, XIII, no. 4244; Tehran-Piz., p. 370sq. (anon.); Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in Raza Library, V, 310, nos. 4027-4029 (Subunrī); Ẓāhir. ṭibb, p. 384sq. and 449 ( Muḥammad al-Mahdawi al-ʻAnbarī), probably also Leipzig 759 (attrib. to al-Qalyūbī). Cf. also H. Daiber, ZDMG Suppl. Ill, 1 (1977), pp. 661-668. The text printed under the name of al-Suyūṭī (Mushār col. 404), with identical title and khuṭbah, but divided into 195 bābs, is an entirely different work.
• Incip.: ... الحمد لله الذى اخترع من العدم الموجودات

OCLC

1340480057

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