ABOUT BOOK

The field of Syriac medicine is perhaps one of the least investigated and explored ~domains within Syriac intellectual culture. Yet owing to its decisive role during the ~late antique period for the transfer of Greek medical knowledge to the Islamic world, ~it should occupy a very special position, and the results of its study are appealing to ~both Classicists and historians of Greek and Islamic medicine. The study of Syriac ~medicine deals predominantly with medical literature, but also with theory and practice ~as they evolved over centuries within changing social and historical contexts ~(the surveys available differ in perspective and scope: Gignoux 2001a ; Habbi 2001 ; ~Muraviev 2014 ; Pormann and Savage-Smith 2007 : 17–21; Strohmaier 1994 ; on the ~Syriac scholarly milieu more broadly: Debié 2014 ).