A historical and cultural entity dispersed across a wide geographical area under the administrative, intellectual, social, and cultural domination of the Arab empire. The Arab world, under the impetus of Islam, by the eighth century A.D., extended from Arabia in the Middle East to all of northern Africa, southern Spain, Sardinia, and Sicily. Close contact was maintained with Greek and Jewish culture. While the principal service of the Arabs to medicine was the preservation of Greek culture, the Arabs themselves were the originators of algebra, chemistry, geology, and many of the refinements of civilization. (From A. Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p260; from F. H. Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p126)
    

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An Arab sheikh smoking a hooka attended by his pipe-bearer. Coloured lithograph by Saint Germain, c. 1850, after E. Prisse.

Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

The sultan's sex potions : Arab aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ; a critical edition, translated and introduced by Daniel L. Newman.

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The sultan's sex potions : Arab aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ; a critical edition, translated and introduced by Daniel L. Newman.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Pocken bei den Arabern / von Paul Richter.

Mediaeval Arabic bookmaking and its relation to early chemistry and pharmacology / Martin Levey.

Science and Islam. 2. The empire of reason.

Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb / taʼlīf al-shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī, ḥaqqaqahu al-duktūr Iḥsān ʻAbbās.