Prophets of Medicine and Medicine of the Prophet: Debates on Medical Theory and Practice in the Medieval Middle East

Starting from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an expanding corpus of medical treatises produced by scholars of religion of other intellectual, who did not practice medicine professionally, occupied a central position in the book markets of the medieval Islamic city and in the libraries of the dignitaries and the different book collectors. These books focused on the medical advice included in prophetic traditions and were classified under what we know as “prophetic medicine.”

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