Lutz Richter-Bernburg
Articles by Lutz Richter-Bernburg
- EBN HENDŪ, ABU’L-FARAJ ʿALĪ
EBN HENDŪ, ABU’L-FARAJ ʿALĪ b. Ḥosayn, also known as Ostāḏ (b. in Ṭabarestān, no later than the early 350s/960s; d….
- EBN BOḴTĪŠŪʿ
EBN BOḴTĪŠŪʿ, prominent family of physicians of Gondēšāpūr at court during the early ʿAbbasid period. Notwithstanding their continued oral competence…
- EBN ABĪ ṢĀDEQ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿABD-al-RAḤMĀN
EBN ABĪ ṢĀDEQ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿABD-al-RAḤMĀN b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad NAYŠĀBŪRĪ (Nīšāpūr, 5th/11th century), medical author known in the century after…
- CORMICK, JOHN
CORMICK, JOHN (sometimes erroneously identified as Charles; d. Mayāmey, near Nīšāpūr, October 1833), one of the first English surgeons to…
- CLOQUET, LOUIS-ANDRÉ-ERNEST
CLOQUET, LOUIS-ANDRÉ-ERNEST (b. Paris, 11 October 1818, d. Tehran, 1855 [exact date unknown]), French anatomist and, from 1262/1846 to 1271/1855,…
- CASTRATION
CASTRATION (of men; ḵaṣī kardan, ḵāya kešīdan, ḵᵛāja kardan). This article will focus on a discussion of castration in Islamic…
- BOḴTĪŠŪʿ
BOḴTĪŠŪʿ, the name of the eponymous ancestor of a Syro-Persian Nestorian family of physicians from Gondēšāpūr, Ḵūzestān, 2nd/8th to 5th/11th…
- JAḠMINI, MAḤMUD
JAḠMINI (or Čaḡmini), MAḤMUD b. Moḥammad b. ʿOmar, an astronomer from Jaḡmin, a village in Ḵᵛārazm (d. 745/1344). He is…
- ILĀQI, SAYYED ŠARAF-AL-ZAMĀN
ILĀQI, SAYYED ŠARAF-AL-ZAMĀN (Bayhaqi; Šaraf-al-Din, in Ebn Abi Oṣaybeʿa) ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD b. Yusof, follower of Avicenna and author in…
- HIPPOCRATES
HIPPOCRATES, or Boqrāṭ (var. Eboqrāṭ, Eboqrā-ṭis, Boqrāṭis) in Islamic tradition, where he is often referred to as “the first codifier…
- ḤĀWI, AL-
ḤĀWI, AL- (i.e., al-Ketābal-ḥāwifi’l-ṭebb “Comprehensive book on medicine”), the title of a major Arabic work on medicine in twenty-five volumes…
- GONDĒŠĀPUR
GONDĒŠĀPUR i.The city. ii. History and medical school. i. THE CITY In the Sasanian epoch, Gondēšāpur was one of the…