On Hemorrhoids: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition

Maimonides, Moses a.k.a. Abuy Imran Musa Ibn Ubayd Allah a.k.a. Moshe Ben Maimon (Edited, Translated, and Annotated by Gerrit Bos)

ISBN 10: 0842527893 / ISBN 13: 9780842527897

Published by Brigham Young University Press, Provo, UT, 2012

About this Item

Octavo. Midnight blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has no discernable flaws. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 221 pages. Dust Jacket - also has no discernable flaws - jacket is clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy. Produced between 1138 and 1204.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Hemorrhoids: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition
• Publisher: Brigham Young University Press, Provo, UT
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0842527893
• ISBN 13: 9780842527897
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Printing Thus.
• Dust Jacket Condition: NF
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Nature

About this title

Synopsis

Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Moses Maimonides, is among the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, and the author of works in Arabic on many subjects, including influential philosophical and medical treatises. On Hemorrhoids is one of these texts, written for a young man of a noble family who was seeking a regimen to help him treat his hemorrhoids. While not the first to write on this subject, Maimonides’s work bears his personal stamp with his emphasis on dietetics, which plays a primary role in so many of his other medical writings. He warns against hastily treating the painful condition with drastic measures such as bleeding and surgery, instead encouraging more cautious treatments like a change in diet. He also advises his patient that if more extreme actions need to be taken, then Maimonides himself must be present.

            Unlike other modern editions of this important work, this edition of On Hemorrhoids takes into account all the extant Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts. The book includes critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations and a glossary of medical terms.

About the Author

Gerrit Bos is chair of the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. Michael R. McVaugh is the William Smith Wells Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill