A Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Chagatay Work by Subḥān Qulï Khan (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 32)

Book info: A Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Chagatay Work by Subḥān Qulï Khan (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 32) (Hardcover, 462 pages) – Brill, 2014. Language: English.

This is the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia. The richly annotated English translation makes the edition useful for readers without special knowledge on medical history and Turkic studies. The author offers a critical edition of a seventeenth-century Central Asian medical treatise written by Sayyid Subḥān Qulï Muḥammad Bahādur khan in the Chagatay language.The edition includes a detailed introduction, a transcription of the original text for philological purposes, an annotated English translation, complete lexica of vocabulary, herbs and plants, minerals and chemicals, diseases and related terms, measures and units, personal names and Qur’ānic verses, and finally two manuscripts in facsimile. Editorial Reviews About the Author László Károly, PhD (2008) in Altaic linguistics, is assistant professor for Turkic studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. He has several publications on Turkic, including Deverbal Nominals in Yakut. A Historical Approach (Harrassowitz, 2013).