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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 153 - 181 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring2017
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