Medicine, Mujūn, and Microcosm in Ḥikāyat Abī l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī
In this essay, connections between medieval medicine and medieval Arabic literary banquets are investigated on the basis of the Arabic commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms on the one hand and passages from Ḥikāyat Abī l-Qāsim on the other. Intersections between these two kinds of texts describi...
| Published in: | Journal of Abbasid Studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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| In: |
Journal of Abbasid Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Comic literature
literary banquets
medicine
wine
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | In this essay, connections between medieval medicine and medieval Arabic literary banquets are investigated on the basis of the Arabic commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms on the one hand and passages from Ḥikāyat Abī l-Qāsim on the other. Intersections between these two kinds of texts describing the advantages and disadvantages of wine explain the contemporary wisdom behind comical medical speeches. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-2371 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22142371-12340016 |