{"product_id":"the-physician-as-a-rebellious-intellectual-the-book-of-the-two-pieces-of-advice-or-kitab-al-nasihatayn-by-c-abd-al-latif-ibn-yusuf-al-baghdadi-1162-1231-introduction-edition-and-translation-of-the-medical-section-9783631642856","title":"The Physician as a Rebellious Intellectual: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe medical section of the \u003ci\u003eKitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice\u003c\/i\u003e by the medieval author cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights into the social history of medicine. cAbd al-Laţīf composed his work as a diatribe directed against false knowledge, and employed the framework of Greek medical epistemology to criticize the rationalist physicians of his day and age. He argued that female and itinerant practitioners, relying on experience, were superior to some rationalists, and decried the wickedness and incompetence of certain medical practitioners of his time. In addition, he lambasted contemporaneous medical education because it put too much faith in a restricted number of textbooks such as the \u003ci\u003eCanon of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e by the celebrated physician Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), or chiefly relied on imperfect abridgments. The medical section of the \u003ci\u003eBook of the Two Pieces of Advice\u003c\/i\u003e is translated here for the first time in a modern language. It is preceded by a lengthy introduction that highlights cAbd al-Laţīfs complicated relation to both medicine and alchemy. The present study also contains the first full bibliography on cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī and his milieu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Medieval Islam – Social history – Medical epistemology – Women – Quacks and charlatans – Medical education – cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) – Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, † 1037).","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044254384471,"sku":"9783631642856","price":38.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-physician-as-a-rebellious-intellectual-the-book-of-the-two-pieces-of-advice-or-kitab-al-nasihatayn-by-c-abd-al-latif-ibn-yusuf-al-baghdadi-1162-1231-introduction-edition-and-translation-of-the-medical-section-9783631642856","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}