&#703;Al&#299; Ibn Sahl Rabban a&#7789;-&#7788;abar&#299;'s &lt;i>Health Regimen&lt;/i>or Book of the Pearl
Subtitle: Arabic Text, English Translation, Introduction and Indices
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020
Language: ara; eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789004445888
Subjects: Medicine
Description: "The Arabic treatise edited and translated here was written in the middle of the 9th century CE by   Ali  ibn Sahl Rabban at Đ-T Đabari , a Christian convert to Islam and one of the most remarkable thinkers of his time. The text can be described as a manual towards the preservation of health, addressed directly to the   Abba sid caliph al-Mutawakkil and his household. It represents not only the oldest extant specimen of its kind, but is also distinguished by its largely non-technical language, as well as by a narrative style that creates an unusual interface with classical Arabic prose literature. The Greek and Indian sources upon which at Đ-T Đabari relied testify to the synthetic and inclusive character of early Islamic medicine"--