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Decline and decadence in Iraq and Syria after the age of Avicenna? : ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (1162–1231) between myth and history
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Joosse, Nanne Pieter George and Pormann, Peter E.. (2010) Decline and decadence in Iraq and Syria after the age of Avicenna? : ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (1162–1231) between myth and history. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol.84 (No.1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 0007-5140
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.0.0310
Abstract
‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī’s (d. 1231) work Book of the Two Pieces of Advice (Kitāb al Nasīḥatayn) challenges the idea that Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century AD. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights into the social history of medicine. ‘Abd al-Laṭīf advocated using the framework of Greek medical epistemology to criticize the rationalist physicians of his day; he argued that female and itinerant practitioners, relying on experience, were superior to some rationalists. He lambasted contemporaneous medical education because it put too much faith in a restricted number of textbooks such as the Canon by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, d. 1037) or imperfect abridgments.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. Kitāb al Nasīḥatayn, Medicine, Arab, Knowledge, Theory of (Islam), Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800, Iraq -- History -- 634-1534, Syria -- History -- 750-1260 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Bulletin of the History of Medicine |
| Publisher: | The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| ISSN: | 0007-5140 |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Volume: | Vol.84 |
| Number: | No.1 |
| Page Range: | pp. 1-29 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1353/bhm.0.0310 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
| Funder: | Vereniging Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde , Wellcome Trust (London, England) |
| Grant number: | 077558 (WT) |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/3407 |
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