Philosophy and Medicine in the Islamic World

This week, a book I edited together with Peter Pormann on Philosophy and Medicine in the Islamic world appeared. It's available from the Warburg Institute. Here is the table of contents:

Introduction

PETER ADAMSON AND PETER E. PORMANN

Philosophical Topics in Medieval Arabic Medical Discourse: Problems and Prospects

PETER E. PORMANN

Hippocrates of Cos in Arabic Gnomologia

OLIVER OVERWIEN

Length and Shortness of Life Between Philosophy and Medicine: The Arabic Aristotle and his Medical Readers

ROTRAUD HANSBERGER

Al-Ǧāḥiẓ, Falsafa and the Arabic Hippocrates

JAMES MONTGOMERY

Early Kalām and the Medical Tradition

GREGOR SCHWARB

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī on Vision

PAULINE KOETSCHET

The Consolations of Philosophy: Abū Zayd al-Balḫī and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī

on Sorrow and Anger

PETER ADAMSON AND HANS HINRICH BIESTERFELDT

Beyond the Disciplines of Medicine and Philosophy: Greek and Arabic Thinkers on the Nature of Plant Life

AILEEN DAS

Al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarī: Compendia between Medicine and Philosophy

ELVIRA WAKELNIG

Cosmic, Corporeal and Civil Regencies: al-Fārābī’s anti-Galenic Defence

of Hierarchical Cardiocentrism

BADR EL-FEKKAK

The Small Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn al-ṣaġīr fī l-ṭibb) Ascribed to Avicenna

RAPHAELA VEIT

ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān on the Philosophical Distinction of Medicine

HANS HINRICH BIESTERFELDT