{"id":7329,"date":"2017-08-11T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:51:04","slug":"abu-al-qasim-august-2017-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2017\/08\/11\/abu-al-qasim-august-2017-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu al-Qasim | August 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7330\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/08\/Albucasis-199x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/>ABU AL-QASIM (d. 1013?). Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii. [Augsburg: Impensis Sigismundi Grimm, &amp; Marci Vuirsung, 1519].<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abu al-Qasim (or Abulcasis, or Albucasis, as he is variously known), a native of Cordova in Moorish Spain, may be classed with Avicenna in the importance of his great medical encyclopedia, <em>al-Tasrif<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kitab Al-Tasrif<\/em>\u00a0was originally published in 30 volumes in about 1000 CE, and then published in three parts after the invention of printing: the pharmaceutical part in 1471, the surgical in 1497, and the featured volume on general medicine, in 1519, edited by the Augsburg physician and printer Sigismund Grimm (fl. 1519).<\/p>\n<p>The work was known to physicians and surgeons in the West as well as in the Muslim world. \u00a0This book describes haemophilia for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi is considered the most influential Arab surgeon to date and is considered the father of modern surgery. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimheritage.com\/article\/abu-al-qasim-al-zahrawi-great-surgeon\">More information about Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi<\/a> available from Muslim Heritage. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ar.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A\">Arabic Wikipedia entry on Albucasis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7331\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7331 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/08\/RBR8.17_1-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/08\/RBR8.17_1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/08\/RBR8.17_1-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/08\/RBR8.17_1-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/08\/RBR8.17_1.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The woodcut vignette from title page, is signed HB, for Hans Burgkmair (1473-1531), the famous sixteenth-century painter and printmaker of Augsburg, although it may have been cut by the Petrarca Master, whose splendid woodcut printer\u2019s device appears on the last leaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You may view this book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\">John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/a>. Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\">donating online<\/a> or setting up a recurring gift with The University of Iowa Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABU AL-QASIM (d. 1013?). Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii. [Augsburg: Impensis Sigismundi Grimm, &amp; Marci Vuirsung, 1519]. Abu al-Qasim (or Abulcasis, or Albucasis, as he is variously known), a native of Cordova in Moorish Spain, may be classed with Avicenna in the importance of his great medical encyclopedia, al-Tasrif. 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