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We looked at this in my Islamic medicine class today. Ceramic bowl depicting a bloodletting, Seljuk, 13th century

Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin Inv. Nr. I.4350

Physicians provided several treatments, but also tips to avoid passionate love. 16/

(Ms Vat 368)

This type of love also came with physical symptoms such as weight loss and dry skin, tearful eyes and a yellow skin colour. 7/

(ms Vat Arab 368)

Since it’s almost Valentine’s day, a thread on the malady of LOVE (ʿishq) in pre-modern Islamic medicine, including some of Ibn Sīnā's matchmaking activities

(ms Vat Arab 368 f.10r) 1/

The session of my Islamic book history seminar that was cancelled today would have focused on libraries in the pre-modern Islamic world. A thread on some of the topics we would have discussed.

(Abū Zayd in the library, from a ms of Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt, Ms Paris BNF Arabe 5847)

Emperor Heraclius attacks a Persian fortress, while the Persians attack Constantinople (626 AD), miniature from the Manasses Chronicle

The Dutch/Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) wrote his thesis at the University of Leuven on ar-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī in 1537

Scholars at an Abbasid library, illustration from al-Ḥarīrī's Maqāmāt, made in Baghdad in 1237

On medieval Arabic water clocks http://t.co/0eQbfItf6S