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ADAPTATION IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMICATE MEDICAL COMPILATIONS: THE EXAMPLE OF ARROW EXTRACTIONS.

Medical compilations from the medieval Islamicate period have been characterized as stagnant on account of their dependence on earlier Graeco-Roman sources. As the authors of these works rarely offer explicit criticism of past theory and practice, their contributions have been defined in terms of th...

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Published in:Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 153 - 181
Main Author: DAS, AILEEN
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2017
Subjects:
History of medicine
Medieval literature
Byzantine literature
Information resources
Compilers (Computer programs)
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