N. Peter Joosse

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 - Beihefte zur Mediaevistik N. Peter Joosse New edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Contents: Medieval Islam - Social history - Medical epistemology - Women - Quacks and charlatans - Medical education - &ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>Abd al-La??f ibn Y?suf al-Baghd?d? (1162-1231) - Ibn S?n? (Avicenna, + 1037). Biographical Note: N. Peter Joosse was a fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a senior research fellow at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Leiden. In 2010, he joined the Department of Classics & Ancient History of the University of Warwick as a Wellcome Trust research fellow to work on &ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>Abd al-La??f ibn Y?suf al-Baghd?d? Arabic commentary on the Hippocratic Prognostic. In 2013 he joined the University of Oxford based project on Ibn ab? U?aybi&ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>a. Publisher Marketing: The medical section of the &ltI>Kit?b al-Na???atayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice&lt/I> by the medieval author &ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>Abd al-La??f ibn Y?suf al-Baghd?d? (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. &ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>Abd al-La??f 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 &ltI>Canon of Medicine&lt/I> by the celebrated physician Ibn S?n? (Avicenna), or chiefly relied on imperfect abridgments. The medical section of the &ltI>Book of the Two Pieces of Advice&lt/I> is translated here for the first time in a modern language. It is preceded by a lengthy introduction that highlights &ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>Abd al-La??fs complicated relation to both medicine and alchemy. The present study also contains the first full bibliography on &ltSUP>c&lt/SUP>Abd al-La??f ibn Y?suf al-Baghd?d? and his milieu.