'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Commentary on Hippocrates Prognosticon: Edition, Translation, and Study. (360G-Wellcome-090597_Z_09_Z)

The project aims at editing, translating and studying Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi s Commentary on the Hippocratic Prognostics, preserved in three manuscripts. Through collation as well as comparison with other sources (secondary evidence), a critical text will be established. This text will serve as the basis for an idiomatic English translation. The work will be analysed on different levels. First, source criticism will establish what kind of texts Abd al-Latif had at his disposal, and how he ch ose to engage with them. Here other projects at Warwick (the Arabic versions of Galen s Commentary on the Epidemics, and of Galen s On the Affected Parts; al-Kaskari) will create crucial synergies. Second, analysis in terms of medical history will explore where Abd al-Latif went beyond his forebears and brought his own perspective to bear on the Hippocratic material. Thirdly, Abd al-Latif s Commentary also offers interesting insights into the social practice of medicine of his time. The key o bject of this project is to make Abd al-Latif s Commentary available for a more general discussion transcending disciplinary boundaries, and offering a first study of how this text impacted on medical theory and practice in the medieval Islamic world.