A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia
Subtitle: a critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan
By: edited, translated and annotated by László Károly
Contributors: Subḥān Qulï, Khan of Bukhara, 1624 or 1625-1702; Subḥān Qulï, Khan of Bukhara, 1624 or 1625-1702
Series: Brill's Inner Asian library -- volume 32; Brill's Inner Asian library -- v. 32.
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; chg
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789004282568; 9789004284982
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Chagatai; Dictionary; History, 17th Century; Dictionaries; Medizin; English; Medicine; Tschagataisch
Description: This is the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia. The richly annotated English translation makes the edition useful for readers without special knowledge on medical history and Turkic studies. The author offers a critical edition of a seventeenth-century Central Asian medical treatise written by Sayyid Subhan Quli Khan Muhammad Bahadur khan in the Chagatay language. The edition includes a detailed introduction, a transcription of the original text for philological purposes, an annotated English translation, complete lexica of vocabulary, herbs and plants, minerals and chemicals, diseases and related terms, measures and units, personal names and Qur'anic verses, and finally two manuscripts in facsimile.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from Chagatay language.