Etiology and typology of the plague according to the Arab physician Ibn Khatima (d.1369)

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Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra

University of Almeria, Spain

: J Pharm Sci Emerg Drugs

Abstract

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Ibn Khatima (c.1324-c.1369) is one of the most important intellectuals of the Medieval Moorish Spain. He was poet, historian and physician and among his writings we find the work titled Taḥṣīl garaḍ al-qāṣid fī-tafṣīl al-maraḍ al wāfid (Succeeding in clarify pest disease), known as Taḥṣīl, which deals to the Black Death, the terrible pandemic that devastated Asia, Africa and Europe at that time. This paper is an approach to this important book including the causes of the plague and its types described by Ibn Khatima according to the scientific knowledge of Islamic Middle Ages as well as the translation of some pages of the Taḥṣīl taking as reference the Arabic manuscript n..1785 from the Library of El Escorial in Spain.

Biography

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Luisa María Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of Almería (Spain) and she was Lecturer at the University of Granada. Thirty six years of the teaching and researching experience. She is Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government, where she has managed and directed several academic and scientific contracts and research projects, as well as Member of European Scientific Institute (ESI) management team, and Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER), etc.

E-mail: marvide@ual.es