The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo
Biographical note
Leigh Chipman, Ph.D. (2006) in Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works on the social and intellectual history of Islamicate medicine. She has published on Arabic pharmacology and on the materia medica of the Cairo Genizah.
Readership
All those interested in the history of pre-modern medicine and science (particularly pharmacy and materia medica), and in the social and intellectual history of the Middle East, especially during the Mamlūk period.
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