The Influence of Translated European Medical Sources on Early Modern Ottoman and Arabic Writing Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (d. 1670)

Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (d. 1670) drew in his medical writings on several European medical traditions, in particular those associated with Daniel Sennert (d. 1637) and Nicolaus Myrepsos. The proposed research at the HAB will examine the transmission of medical knowledge from Europe to the Ottoman Empire, with a focus on how these authors were received within Arabic and Ottoman medical traditions. It will do so through a review of relevant studies and sources, with the aim of situating Ibn Sallūm’s work within the context of the transmission of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European medicine and its points of contact with Ottoman practice. The stay will also provide an opportunity to engage with ongoing scholarship in early modern medical history, contributing to a more grounded understanding of the intellectual networks that informed Ibn Sallūm’s writings.

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