Trübner's Oriental Series: Arabian Medicine And Its Influence On The Middle Ages: Volume I (trubner's Oriental Series) (volume 5)

This is Volume II of six in the Arabic History and Culture collection. Originally published in 1926, this text is volume one of Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages and attempts to place before the reader the origin and development of Arabian Medicine and its subsequent cultivation among the Arabistae of the Latin west. The latter half of this volume is on Mediaeval Medicine, which is but a modification of Arabian Medicine as understood by the scholastics who based their systems on what are shown to be indifferent Latin versions of the Arabic writings of Islam, which in turn were versions of ~he Syriac translations of the Greek texts. Trbner's Oriental Series was set up by Kegan Paul Trench & Trbner in 1890. It was undoubtedly the most important English language series in oriental studies of the period, publishing works between 1890 and 1930. The books in the series reflected the scholarly interests of the time, and covered an enormous variety of topics pertaining to Asia, Africa and the Middle language and literatures; religion and philosophy; history and economics, to name but a few. Studies by well-known scholars include Romesh Chunder Dutt on the economic history of India, Emil Bretschneider on the Chinese sources of Asian geography, Donald Campbell on Arabian medicine and William MacGovern on Buddhist philosophy. There are also insights into the early studies of Feng-shui, Hindu mythology and natural history. Many of the titles in the original series have long been out of print. Routledge are thrilled to be reissuing 102 volumes from the original series. The volumes are available as an entire set, as individual volumes and also as mini-sets Africa, the Ancient Near East, Arabic history and culture, Buddhism, China, Indian history, literature, religion and philosophy, Islam, Japan, Persia and Southeast Asia. Including reprints of classic works by De Lacy O'Leary and Donald Campbell, this set will prove essential to the student of medieval Western history and to those interested in the development of Islam. This set brings together a broad spectrum of research and translations from Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan and Pali Buddhist sources, detailing the history and philosophy of Buddhism. Romesh Chunder Dutt. This Ed. First Published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The ten volumes in this set provide an important overview of early concepts of Hindu philosophy. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.