Literature Guide: Arab-Islamic Medicine

WCIU Journal: Health and Disease Topic

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Reference Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.

June 25, 2021

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(An asterisk indicates an e-book in Latourette Library.)

Library of Congress Classification

R 128.3 (Early works)                                   

R 143 (History)

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Medicine, Arab                                              

Medicine, Medieval

Periodical Articles

Conrad, Lawrence I. 1985. “The Social Structure of Medicine in Medieval Islam.” Bulletin of the Society for the Social History of Medicine 37.

Dols, Michael W. 1974. “Plague in Early Islamic History.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 94: 371-83.

Leiser, Gary. 1983. “Medical Education in Islamic Lands from the Seventh to the Fourteenth Century.” Journal of the History of Medicine 38: 48-75.

Reference Books with Relevant Articles

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. 1993. S.v. “Diseases of the Islamic World” and “Islamic and Indian Medicine”

Concise Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. 1993. 

Books

*Chipman, Leigh. 2010. The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamluk Cairo. Leiden: Brill.

Conrad, Lawrence I. 1992. Epidemic Disease in Formal and Popular Thought in Early Islamic Society. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 

Khan, M. S. 1986. Islamic Medicine. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Levey, Martin. 1973. Early Arabic Pharmacology: An Introduction Based on Ancient and  Medieval Sources. Leiden: E. J. Brill.  

*Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. 2001. Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Meyerdorg, Max. 1984. Studies in Medieval Arabic Medicine. Edited by Penelope Johnstone. London: Variorum.

Rahman, Fazhur. 1989. Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition: Change and Identity. New York: Crossroads.

Rosenthal, Franz. 1990. Science and Medicine in Islam. Aldershot, England: Variorum.

*Shaham, Ron. 2010. The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ullmann, Manfred. 1970. Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.  

Books with Relevant Chapters

Dunlop, Robert H., and David J. Williams. 1996. Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Porter, Roy. 1997. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Chapter 4: “Medicine and Faith.”