Ibn Juljul's Generations of Physicians and Sages

In the present book, Oliver Kahl offers, for the first time, a complete, annotated English translation of Ibn Juljul's Tabaqat al-atibba? wa-l-hukama?, one of the earliest Arabic texts of its kind. Ibn Juljul's work, completed in the year 987 CE in Cordoba, is essentially a collection of biographical essays on ancient and medieval physicians, scientists and philosophers, interspersed with numerous...