Islamic History and Civilization222 Ibn al Jazzār’s Zād musāfir wa qūt ḥāḍir. Provisions for the Traveller Nourishment Sedentary

The compendium entitled Zād al-musāfir by Ibn al-Jazzār (tenth century) is one of the most influential handbooks in the history of medieval medicine. The present volume includes a critical edition of the Arabic original and an annoteted English translation of the books dealing with diseases of the internal organs. The medical compendium entitled Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir (Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary) and compiled by Ibn al-Jazzār from Qayrawān in the tenth century is one of the most influential handbooks in the history of western medicine. In the Middle Ages, it was translated into Latin and Byzantine Greek, as well as three times into Hebrew. The present volume - being the last in a series of books published since the 1990ies - includes a new critical edition of the Arabic text of books III through V dealing with diseases of the internal organs along with an annotated English translation.