In Babylonian medicine, various minerals and stones were used as materia medica. Studying later periods and texts such as Arabic manuscripts can prove that Babylonian medical lore survived for a long time in different cultures and can be very useful for understanding Babylonian medical practice: Dutch publisher Brill has announced a new monograph by Fabian Käs entitled “Al-Maqrīzīs Traktat über die Mineralien” scheduled for May 2015.
Dr. Fabian Käs works at the Martin-Buber-Institute at the University of Cologne as part of the DFG-Project “Erstmalige kritische Edition des Kitāb at-Talḫīs von Marwān ibn Ǧanāḥ nebst englischer Übersetzung, Kommentar und Analyse des iberoromanischen Wortschatzes”.
Read the full announcement by Brill here.
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