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Bibliography for medicine in the Genizah and related reference literature

 

- ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn, (ed. al-Qādirī al-Šarafī, Ġ.M.) Haydarabad 1964.

- Allony, N., Jewish Library in the Middle Ages: Book Lists from the Cairo Genizah, Frenḳel, M., Ben-Shammai, H., Soḳolow, M. (eds.), Makhon Ben-Zvi le-heḳer Ḳehilot Yiśraʾel ba-mizraḥ, Jerusalem 2006 [Hebr.].

 - Baker, C., “Islamic and Jewish Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean World: the Genizah Evidence”, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 69 (1996): 577–580.

- Ibn al-Baiṭar, Ḍiyāʾal-Dīn ʿAbdallāh, Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aġḏiya, Cairo 1974 (repr. Frankfurt/M. 1996).

- Ibn al-Baiṭar, Tafsīr Kitāb Diyāsqūrīdūs, (ed. Ibrāhīm ibn Murād) Beirut 1989.

- Bedevian, A.K., Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names: in Latin, Arabic, Armenian, English, French, German, Italian and Turkish Languages; including economic, medicinal, poisonous and ornamental plants and common weeds, Argus & Papazian Presses, Cairo 1936.

- Al-Bīrūnī, Abū Raiḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, Al-Bīrūnī’s Book on Pharmacy and Materia Medica, (ed. And English transl. Hakim Mohammed Said), Karachi 1973.

- Al-Bīrūnī, Abū Raiḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Jamāhir fī maʿrifat al-jawāhir, (ed. Krenkow) Haydarabad 1936.

- Burnett, C., Ibn Baklarish’s Book of Simples. Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain, Oxford 2008

- Chipman, L., - Lev, E., “Syrup from the Apothecary's Shop: A Genizah fragment containing one of the earliest manuscripts of Mihaj al-dukkan”, Journal of Semitic Studies 51 (2006): 137–68.

- Cohen, M., “The Burdensome Life of a Jewish Physician and Communal Leader: A Genizah Fragment from the Alliance Israelite Universelle Collection”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16 (1993): 123–36.

- Dietrich, A., Discorides Triumphans. Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jahr. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica, 2 vv., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988.

- Dietrich, A., Die Ergänzungen Ibn Juljul’s zur Materia medica des Dioskurides (Maqāla fī Ḏikr al-adawiya allatī lam yaḏkuruhā Diyusqūrīdūs), Göttingen 1933.

- Dioskurides, Al-maqālāt al-sabʿ min Kitāb Diyāsqūrīdūs wa-huwa Hayūlā al-ṭibb fī al-ḥašāʾiš wa-al-sumūm, (ed. Dubler, C.E.) Barcelona – Tetuàn 1952–59.

- Dozy, R.P.A., Supplément aux Dictionnaires arabes, 2 vv., Brill – Maisonneuve, Leiden – Paris 1927 (2nd ed.).

- Fenton, P., “The Importance of the Cairo Genizah for the History of Medicine”, Medical History 24 (1980): 347–8.

- Ferrario, G., “The Jews and Alchemy. Notes for a Problematic Approach”, in López Pérez, M., Kahn, D., Rey Bueno, M. (eds.), Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010: 19–29.

- Freudenthal, G., review on Patai, R., The Jewish Alchemists. An History and Source Book, (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1994), Isis 86 (1995), p. 318–319.

- Freudenthal, G., “Medieval alchemy in Hebrew: a noted absence”, in Freudenthal, G. (ed.), Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, to appear in early 2012.

- Goitein, S.D., “The Medical Profession in the Light of the Cairo Genizah Documents”, Hebrew Union College Annual 34 (1963): 177–94.

- Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean Society. The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Genizah, 5 vv. + indexes, University of California Press – Cambridge University Press, Berkeley – Los Angeles – London 1967–1993.

- Goitein, S.D., Friedman, M.A., India traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza, Brill, Leiden – Boston, 2008.

- Goltz, D., Studien zur Geschichte der Mineralnamen in Pharmazie, Chemie und Medizin von den Anfangen bis Paracelsus, Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1972.

- Gottheil, R., “Fragments Treating of Medicine from the Cairo Genizah”, Journal of the American Oriental Society 50 (1930): 112–24.

- Gottheil, R., “Further Fragments on Medicine from the Genizah”, The Jewish Quarterly Review 21 (1931): 419–38.

- Gottheil, R., “A Genizah Fragment of a Treatise on the Sciences in General”, The Jewish Quarterly Review 23 (1932): 163–80.

- Hurvitz, E., Catalogue of the Cairo Genizah Fragments in the Westminster College Library, Cambridge. The Lewis-Gibson Collection, Cairo Genizah Institute – Yeshiva University, New York 2006 [Hebrew].

- Isaacs, H.D., Baker, C.F., Medical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994.

- Issa, A., Dictionnaire des noms des plantes en Latin, français, anglais et arabe, Imprimerie Nationale, Cairo 1930.

- Al-Jazzār, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, Kitāb al-Iʿtimād fī al-adawiya al-mufrada, (ed. Sezgin, F.), Frankfurt/M. 1985.

- Ibn Juljul, Sulaimān ibn Ḥassān, Tratado sobre los medicamentos della trìaca (Maqāla fī adawiyat al-tiriāq), (ed. Garijo, I.) Cordoba 1992.

- Käs, F., Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie. Ein Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studen, 2 vv., Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010.

- Kottek, S.S., “Medical Interest in Ancient Rabbinic Literature”, in Safrai, S., Safrai, Z., Schwartz, J., Tomson, P.J. (eds.), The Literature of the Sages, Royal Van Gorcum and Fortress Press, Assen NL 2006: II, 485–96.

- Al-Kūhīn, Abū al-Munā Dāwūd al-ʿAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Kitāb Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustur al-aʿyān, Cairo 1330/1911.

- Langermann, Y.T., The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages, Ashgate, Aldershot – Brookfield 1999.

- Leclerc, Lucien, Traité des Simples par Ibn el-Beïthar, Paris 1877–1883 (repr. Frankfurt/M. 1996)

- Levey, Martin, The Medical Formulary or Aqrābādhīn of al-Kindī translated with a study of its Materia Medica, Madison/Wisconsin 1966.

- Lev, E., “Drugs Held and Sold by Pharmacists of the Jewish Community of Medieval (11th-14th centuries) Cairo According to Lists of materia medica found at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, Cambridge”, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 110 (2007): 275–93.

- Lev, E., Amar, Z., Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2008.

- Lev, E., Niessen, F., “Addenda to Isaacs Catalogue ‘Medical and Para-medical Manuscript in the Cambridge Genizah Collection' Together with the Edition of Two Medical Documents T-S 12.33 and T-S NS 297.56”, Hebrew Union College Annual 77, (2008): 131–165.

- Lev, E., “A Catalogue of the Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Mosseri Genizah Collection, together with several unpublished examples (X.37; I.124.2)”, Journal of Jewish Studies 62, (2011):121–145.

- Löw, Immanuel, Fauna und Mineralien der Juden. Herausgegeben und mit einem Vorwort und Anmerkungen versehen von Alexander Scheiber, Hildesheim 1969.

- Al-Majūsī, ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās, Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʿa al-ṭibbīya, Cairo 1887 (repr. Frankfurt/M. 1996)

- Ibn Māsawaih, Yaḥyā, Kitāb al-Jawāhir wa-ṣifātihā, (ed. Raʾūf, ʿI.), Cairo 1977.

- Meyerhof, Max, The Book of the Ten Treatises on the Eye Ascribed to Hunain ibn Ishāq (809-877 A.D.), Cairo 1928.

- Meyerhof, Max, Šarḥ asmāʾ al-ʿuqqār (L’explication des noms des drogues), Un glossaire de matière médicale composé par Maïmonides, Cairo 1940.

- Schmucker, W., Die pflanzliche und mineralische Materia Medica im Firdaus al-Ḥikma des Ṭabarī, Bonn 1969.

- Ṭabarī, ʿA.b.S.R., Kitāb Firdaus al-ḥikma or Paradise of Wisdom, (ed. Muhammad Zubair Ṣiddīqī), Berlin 1928.

- Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ, Kitāb al-Ḥawī fī al-ṭibb, Haydarabad 1955–1970.

- Ibn Rušd, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-kullīyāt fī al-ṭibb, (Forneas Besteiro – Alvarez de Morales), Madrid 1987.

- Ibn Sīnā, ʿA.b.Ḥ., Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb, Cairo 1877.

- Ullmann, M., Wörterbuch zu den griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen des neunten Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden 2002.

- Ullmann, M., Untersuchungen zur arabischen Überlieferung der Materia Medica des Dioskurides, Wiesbaden 2009.

- Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, Muwaffaq al-Dīn Aḥmad, Kitāb ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ, (ed. Müller, A.), Königsberg 1884