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...

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Auteur principal: Selove, Emily (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2015
Dans: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Année: 2015, Volume: 2, Numéro: 2, Pages: 107-118
Sujets non-standardisés:B Comic literature literary banquets medicine wine
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2214-2371
Contient:In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22142371-12340016