Ibn al-Tilmīdh’s Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.FabianKäsIbn al-Tilmīdh’s Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Mineralshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/M28VJANChttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/M28VJANChttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/M28VJANCPetrosBouras-VallianatosDionysiosStathakopoulosDrugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological KnowledgeCambridgeCambridge University Press202337-57Amīn al-Dawla Ibn al-Tilmīdh (d. 1165) was born in Baghdad into a family of Christian physicians. He served several Abbasid caliphs, who entrusted him with high-ranking positions, such as that of ‘head of physicians’ of his hometown. He wrote about twenty books and treatises, including a renowned dispensatory. In this chapter I examine Ibn al-Tilmīdh’s little-known work on simple drugs, the Kitāb quwā l-adwiyah (Book on the Faculties of Simple Drugs). The text consists of 287 entries on medicinal plants, minerals, and a few animal products. Each entry is divided into five sections, dedicated respectively to synonyms, descriptions, ‘faculties’, benefits of the simple drug, and its use in compound remedies. The most interesting of these sections is the first, as Ibn al-Tilmīdh not only gave the usual Arabic names of plants and minerals and their synonyms there, but also regularly listed the Syriac, Persian, and Greek names of the drugs. Käs, Fabian. “Ibn Al-Tilmīdh’s Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals.” In Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Dionysios Stathakopoulos, 37–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Fabian Käs, Ibn Al-Tilmīdh’s Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals,” in Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, ed. Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Dionysios Stathakopoulos (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 37–57.Arab ChristiansIbn al-TilmidNestoriansVII-XVIII CEXII CEmedicinepharmacologyplantssciencestones