Science and Medicine in Islam: A Collection of Essays

by Franz Rosenthal

The achievements of medieval Muslim scholars in the fields of philosophy, science and medicine are now well recognized, and Franz Rosenthal's work has been instrumental in helping us to understand these. In this third collection of his articles, he demonstrates the information to be gained from tracing the Greek roots of the science and medicine of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages. Of particular concern here are the Hellenistic or late Hellenistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860782824
• ISBN13: 9780860782827
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 1 Pages