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Article Galen, On Simple Drugs First of all, it is helpful to identify the boundaries that Galen explicitly draws in his medical practice. He is by no means the only physician to express disgust at certain remedies, and it may be worth asking to what extent such statements by physicians are merely rhetorical (see Santini-Scivoletto-Zurli…

Article Early mutakallimūn who are said to have been physicians themselves or had a keen interest in medical subjects were usually acquainted with non-Galenic medicine and practitioners of indigenous medical traditions. Particularly noteworthy are recurrent reports about contacts with physicians of Indian origin: (Ibn al-Nadīm, al-Fihrist (n. 4 above), vol. II/1, pp. 224, 315 f.;…

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The least investigated body of source materials dealing with the history of the Greek-speaking people prior to modern times is undoubtedly that body of historical sources which we might call Islamic. This is doubly lamentable. First, the rise of Islam and the whole course of Islamic history down to the present day have had a…

The easternmost part constitutes the western edge of the great Anatolian plateau whose elevation varies in the vicinity of 1000 m. The section immediately to the north, west, and south is made up of mountain ranges which attain altitudes of up to 2000 m. in the north, about 2500 m. near Bursa, and over 3000…

Article Introduction: Identity and Byzantine Historiography Byzantine conceptions of the Seljuk Turks’ and Turkish nomads’ communities in Asia Minor from the 11th to the mid-13th century. By developing a vocabulary with which to address the Seljuk and other Turks, Byzantine historiographers left us with telling traces of how they perceived belonging to a social and…