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Medicine without Physicians. A Critical Edition, with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, of a Compendium of Domestic Medicine from 14th-Century Cairo.

2018/31/B/HS3/00145

Keywords:

Ibn al-Akfani Arabic-Islamic medicine Cairo Near East Mamluk period history culture

Descriptors:

  • HS3_5:
  • HS3_2:
  • HS3_1:

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Orientalistyczny

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Anna Paulina Lewicka 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: OPUS 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 230 174 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-24

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-01-23

Project duration:: 54 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Information in the final report

  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. Skóra lwa, Galen i tajemne znaki. Terapia okultystyczno-magiczna w arabskojęzycznym dyskursie medycznym okresu przednowoczesnego
    Authors:
    Paulina B. Lewicka
    Book:
    Medicina antiqua, mediaevalis et moderna. Historia-filozofia-religia III (rok: 2023, tom: III, strony: 163-181), Wydawca: WUJK
    Status:
    Published
  2. 'When the Doctor Is Not Around: Arabic-Islamic Self-Treatment Manuals as Cultured People's Guides to Medico-Pharmacological Knowledge. The Mamluk Period (1250-1517)'
    Authors:
    Paulina B. Lewicka
    Book:
    Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge (rok: 2023, tom: 1, strony: 291 - 319), Wydawca: P. Bouras-Vallianatos, D. Stathakopoulos / Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
  3. Dietary Warnings and Commandments in the Medical Discourse of the Mamlūk Near East (Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries): Journey of a Concept"
    Authors:
    Paulina B. Lewicka
    Book:
    Status:
    Accepted for publication