Islamic Medicine

Adivar [Adnan], Abdülhāk. La Science chez les Turcs Ottomans. Paris, 1939. More recent editions exist in Turkish, such as Osmanli Türklerinde I. lim. 5. basim. Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, 1991.

Conrad, Lawrence I. "Arab-Islamic Medical Tradition." In The Western Medical Tradition 800 BC to AD 1800, edited by Lawrence I. Conrad et al. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. A good introduction that renders the classic by Manfred Ullman up to date.

Dols, Michael W. Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. A translation of an eleventh-century medical treatise by an Egyptian physician that reflects Muslim humoral medical knowledge of the period.

——. Majnūn: The Madman in Medieval Islamic Society. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992. A study of madness in Muslim society that also includes the medical aspects of this social and cultural phenomenon.

Elgood, Cyril. A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the Earliest Times until the Year A.D. 1932. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1951.

——. Safavid Medical Practice or the Practice of Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A.D. and 1750 A.D. London: Luzac, 1970.

Ullman, Manfred. Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.