An aretalogy fragment from the early Abbasid caliphate features the Christian physician Yūhannā ibn Māsawayhi, known also for being crude and impious. … Read the post Marian aretalogy of an impious Christian physician to Abbasid caliphs
Physicians were highly influential figures in rulers’ courts in the early Islamic world, but managing ruler-patients was far from easy. … Read the post managing patients: physicians serving early Islamic rulers
Fulfilling a universal human hope is a physician who can revive the dead: the perfect physician. … Read the post the perfect physician can revive the dead
Astonishing medical use of excrement (dreckapotheke) has been widely accepted historically and has existed within well-developed, scholarly medical knowledge. … Read the post ninth-century physician Bakhtishu saves man with bird-shit medicine
In the intellectually vibrant ancient Islamic world, the expertise of astrologers and physicians shaped medical treatment for elite persons. … Read the post astrologers and physicians in ancient intellectual competition