Ibn Abi Usaibia, “History of Physicians” now online
December 21st, 2011 by Roger Pearse
I have finally completed the transcription of the 1954 English translation by Lothar Kopf of Ibn Abi Usaibia, History of Physicians. It may be found here.
I have divided the file into three sections, chapters 1-5, 6-10 and 11-15 respectively. I have also written an introduction.
All this material is public domain — use it as you will.
This is a great job you have done to those interested in Arabic literature and the history of medicine. People don’t realise how much work such a project takes. Thank you for this and for all your good work.
I appreciate the kind words. Ibn Abi Usaibia has dominated months of my life. But it should make it far easier for people to learn about this subject.
Dear Mr Pearse
I really do not know how to thank you for this fantastic job you have done. I have the original work in Arabic; it helped me a lot in all my studies in History of Medicine full text of which are published in the above mentioned website.
I just downloaded this treasure of yours and I would like to thank you again and again. I will certainly acknowledge your courtesy whenever I quote any excerpts from this translation.
Kind regards
Rabie E Abdel-Hlim
Emeritus Professor of Urology
Kuwait Prize Laureate (History of Medicine)
Dear Dr Abdel-Halim,
You are very kind! Not many people have the Arabic text either, I find. I wish it was online in Arabic.
Your website is wonderful — thank you for making that available.
Do feel free to use the translation in any way you like. If you want to put a copy on your site, do feel free. It is public domain, so it doesn’t belong to me.
Ibn Abi Usaibia is such an interesting work! I hope that, now that 2bn people can see it in English, it will become much better known!