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Title A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia. A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subhan Quli Khan / lászló Károly.

Publication Info. Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (452 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill's Inner Asian Library ; 32
Brill's Inner Asian library ; 32.
Summary This is the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia. The richly annotated English translation makes the edition useful for readers without special knowledge on medical history and Turkic studies.0The author offers a critical edition of a seventeenth-century Central Asian medical treatise written by Sayyid Subhan Quli Khan Muhammad Bahadur khan in the Chagatay language. The edition includes a detailed introduction, a transcription of the original text for philological purposes, an annotated English translation, complete lexica of vocabulary, herbs and plants, minerals and chemicals, diseases and related terms, measures and units, personal names and Qur'anic verses, and finally two manuscripts in facsimile.
Contents A Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Chagatay Work by Subhān Qulï Khan; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Medicine among the Turks; 1.2 The author; 1.3 Medical works of Subhān Qulï; 1.4 The manuscripts; Tabīblik kitābï (TK); Hulāsat al-hukamā' (HH); 1.5 Technical remarks for the edition; Transcription; Translation; Lexica; Facsimiles; 1.6 The medical system of Subhān Qulï; Sources used by Subhān Qulï; The structure of the treatise; Fundamental medical theories; Graeco-Islamic medicine; Divine medicine
Popular medicineNon-medical thoughts of Subhān Qulï; 1.7 Materia medica; 1.8 Drugs and other medical substances; 1.9 Names of diseases; 2 Bibliography; 3 Transcription; 4 Translation; 5 Lexica; 5.1 Vocabulary; 5.2 Herbs/Plants; 5.3 Minerals and chemicals; 5.4 Diseases and related terms; 5.5 Measures and units; 5.6 Personal names; 5.7 Qur'ānic verses; 6 Facsimiles; 6.1 Török O. 38; 6.2 436/III
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Subject Medicine -- Asia, Central -- History -- 17th century.
Medicine.
Central Asia.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Károly, László.
Other Form: Print version: Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia. A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subhan Quli Khan 9789004282568 (OCoLC)891030304
ISBN 9789004284982 electronic book
9004284982 electronic book
9789004282568
9004282564