TY - BOOK ID - 85483144 TI - Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh : al-Damanhuri's "Clear statement" on anatomy PY - 2019 SN - 9780367028978 0367028972 9780429001031 0429001037 9780429672880 0429672888 0429671393 9780429669903 0429669909 9780429671395 PB - New York, NY ; London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Human anatomy KW - Physicians KW - Anatomy KW - Medicine, Arabic KW - History, 18th Century KW - Allopathic doctors KW - Doctors KW - Doctors of medicine KW - MDs (Physicians) KW - Medical doctors KW - Medical profession KW - Medical personnel KW - Medicine KW - 18th Cent. History (Medicine) KW - 18th Cent. History of Medicine KW - 18th Cent. Medicine KW - Historical Events, 18th Century KW - History of Medicine, 18th Cent. KW - History, Eighteenth Century KW - Medical History, 18th Cent. KW - Medicine, 18th Cent. KW - 18th Century History KW - 18th Century Histories KW - Cent. History, 18th (Medicine) KW - Cent. Medicine, 18th KW - Century Histories, 18th KW - Century Histories, Eighteenth KW - Century History, 18th KW - Century History, Eighteenth KW - Eighteenth Century Histories KW - Eighteenth Century History KW - Histories, 18th Century KW - Histories, Eighteenth Century KW - History, 18th Cent. (Medicine) KW - history KW - Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim. KW - Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim al-Damanhūrī KW - Ṣiyām, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim KW - Damanhūrī KW - دمنهوري سالم KW - أحمد بن عبد المنعم الدمنهوري KW - دمنهوري، أحمد بن عبد المنعم KW - Egypt. KW - Arab Republic of Egypt KW - United Arab Republic KW - Anatomie humaine. KW - Médecine égyptienne. KW - Médecine arabe. KW - Médecine KW - Early works to 1800. KW - Biography. KW - Histoire. KW - Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85483144 AB - In 1768, Ahmad al-Damanhuri became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-Damanhuri remains almost unknown, and much of his work awaits study and analysis. This book aims to shed light on al-Damanhuri's diverse intellectual background, and that of and his contemporaries, building on and continuing the scholarship on the academic thought of the late Ottoman Empire. The book specifically investigates the intersection of medical and religious knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Egypt. It takes as its focus a manuscript on anatomy by al-Damanhuri (d. 1778), entitled "The Clear Statement on the Science of Anatomy (al-qawl al-sarih fi 'ilm al-tashrih),". The book includes an edited translation of The Clear Statement, which is a well-known but unstudied and unpublished manuscript. It also provides a summary translation and analysis of al-Damanhuri's own intellectual autobiography. As such, the book provides an important window into a period that remains deeply understudied and a topic that continues to cause debates and controversies. This study, therefore, will be of keen interest to scholars working on the "post-Classical" Islamic world, as well as historians of religion, science, and medicine looking beyond Europe in the Early Modern period. ER -