{"product_id":"medicine-and-religion-in-the-life-of-an-ottoman-sheikh-paperback-softback","title":"Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1768, Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-Damanhūrī remains almost unknown, and much of his work awaits study and analysis. This book aims to shed light on al-Damanhūrī’s diverse intellectual background, and that of and his contemporaries, building on and continuing the scholarship on the academic thought of the late Ottoman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book specifically investigates the intersection of medical and religious knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Egypt. It takes as its focus a manuscript on anatomy by al-Damanhūrī (d. 1778), entitled \"\u003ci\u003eThe Clear Statement on the Science of Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eal-qawl al-ṣarīḥ fī ʿilm al-tashrīḥ\u003c\/i\u003e),\". The book includes an edited translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Clear Statement\u003c\/i\u003e, which is a well-known but unstudied and unpublished manuscript. It also provides a summary translation and analysis of al-Damanhūrī’s own intellectual autobiography. As such, the book provides an important window into a period that remains deeply understudied and a topic that continues to cause debates and controversies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study, therefore, will be of keen interest to scholars working on the \"post-Classical\" Islamic world, as well as historians of religion, science, and medicine looking beyond Europe in the Early Modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566861148398,"sku":"9780367731649","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367731649.jpg?v=1720699273","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/medicine-and-religion-in-the-life-of-an-ottoman-sheikh-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}