Kitāb al-munjiḥ fī’l-ṭibb wa’l-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa’l-shakāwá
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- Kitāb al-munjiḥ fī’l-ṭibb wa’l-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa’l-shakāwá (Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century)
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- Author
- Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century
- المغربي،ابو سعید ابن ابراهيم
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- Abū Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī al-Mutaṭṭib, known as al-ʿAlāʾī (fl. 1150s-1160s)
- Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī
- ابو سعید ابن ابراهيم المغربي المتطب
- العلائي
- Biographical notes
- Nothing is known about the author but version of the name Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī given by Brockelmann ( (Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902., pp. 275-6)) appears to be incorrect and the same mistake is repeated by Ullmann ( (Ullmann, Manfred. Die Medizin im Islam. Leiden and Köln: Brill, 1970.)).
- Title
- Kitāb al-munjiḥ fī’l-ṭibb wa’l-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa’l-shakāwá
- كتاب المنجح فی الطب والتداوي من صنوف الأمراض والشكاوى
- Success in Medicine and Therapy among the Categories of Deseases and Complaints
- Notes
- This work is a manual describing 550 simple medicinal substances alphabetically organized and composed in the format of synoptic tables. The work consists of a long introduction and 28 chapters, one for each letter of the alphabet. The introduction includes several diagrams to illustrate humoral medical concepts. The tables contain sixteen categories of information regarding the characteristics of each substance and its therapeutic uses: physical appearance, type (forms), preferred state, primary humoral quality (hot/cold/dry/wet), strength, use for the different parts of the head, use for respiratory system and internal organs, use for the digestive tract, use for the whole body; application; dosage; harmful effects; antidotes; substitutes or replacements; number assigned to the medicament by use of letters.
- Composed in mid 12th century [1150-1169 CE].
- Dedicated to Dhu’l-Qarnayn ibn Ismāʿīl (r. 1151-1162), Danishmendid ruler, ذو القرنين ابن إسماعيل
- Main language of text
- Arabic
- Bibliography
- Studies
- Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 890-891.
- Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 1032 (no. 51).
- Renaud, H. P. J.. "Une problème de bibliographie arabe: Le Taqwīm al-Adwiya d’al-‘Ala’i." Hespéris. 16 1933: 69-81.
- Ullmann, Manfred. Die Medizin im Islam. Leiden and Köln: Brill, 1970.
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- Wellcome Trust 58
- Bodleian Library 564
- Bodleian Library 35
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France 6283
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France 2956
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France 2967
- Gotha Research Library 2011
- UniversitatBibliothek Uppsala 352
- Nuruosmaniye no. 3457
- Nuruosmaniye no. 3494
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- 20th. century