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Didactic poems on medicine and their commentaries in medieval al-Andalus and Western Islam

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[eng] Little is known about the didactic poetry on the sciences produced in al-Andalus and the Maghrib until the 15th century. The genre flourished from the 12th century onwards, possibly due to the influence of the famous Urjūza fī l-ṭibb by Ibn Sīnā. The Urjūza was commented upon by Ibn Rushd and Ibn Ṭumlūs and reached a wide readership thanks to the scholars of al-Andalus; they also wrote other poems on medicine and the sciences for a learned public, and possibly also for future physicians. The article pieces together and analyses a large body of evidence from the primary and secondary bibliography in order to give a general description of the genre and its influence in the transmission and teaching of medicine in the Almohad, Nasrid, Marinid and Ḥafsid societies.

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Suhayl. Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islam, 2021, vol. 18, p. 165-204

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cc-by-nc-nd (c) Forcada Nogués, Miquel, 2021

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Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica)

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Didactic poems on medicine and their commentaries in medieval al-Andalus and Western Islam