The Doctors' Dinner Party - Paperback
by Ibn Buṭlān
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ibn Buṭlān, Philip F. Kennedy (Translator), Jeremy Farrell (Translator)Series:Library of Arabic LiteraturePublish date:2024-03-05Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479827480ISBN-10:1479827487UPC:9781479827480Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, African, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesSize:8.19 x 5.43 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCQ3QDT76W
The Doctors' Dinner Party
A witty satire of the medical profession
The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying...Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479827480ISBN-10:1479827487UPC:9781479827480Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, African, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesSize:8.19 x 5.43 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCQ3QDT76W
Ibn Buṭlān (Author)
Ibn Buṭlān (d. 460/1068) was a Christian physician and scholar from Baghdad. Philip F. Kennedy (Translator)
Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. He is the author of Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition. Jeremy Farrell...
Ibn Buṭlān (d. 460/1068) was a Christian physician and scholar from Baghdad. Philip F. Kennedy (Translator)
Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. He is the author of Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition. Jeremy Farrell...
Publisher: New York University Press
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Ibn Buṭlān, Philip F. Kennedy (Translator), Jeremy Farrell (Translator)
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