{"product_id":"medicine-and-religion-in-the-life-of-an-ottoman-sheikh","title":"Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's \"Clear Statement\" on Anatomy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1768, Aḥmad al-DamanhÅ«rÄ« became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-DamanhÅ«rÄ« remains almost unknown, and much of his work awaits study and analysis. This book aims to shed light on al-DamanhÅ«rÄ«'s diverse intellectual background, and that of and his contemporaries, building on and continuing the scholarship on the academic thought of the late Ottoman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book specifically investigates the intersection of medical and religious knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Egypt. It takes as its focus a manuscript on anatomy by al-DamanhÅ«rÄ« (d. 1778), entitled \"\u003ci\u003eThe Clear Statement on the Science of Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eal-qawl al-á¹£arīḥ fÄ« Ê-ilm al-tashrīḥ\u003c\/i\u003e),\". The book includes an edited translation of\u003ci\u003eThe Clear Statement\u003c\/i\u003e, which is a well-known but unstudied and unpublished manuscript. It also provides a summary translation and analysis of al-DamanhÅ«rÄ«'s own intellectual autobiography. As such, the book provides an important window into a period that remains deeply understudied and a topic that continues to cause debates and controversies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study, therefore, will be of keen interest to scholars working on the \"post-Classical\" Islamic world, as well as historians of religion, science, and medicine looking beyond Europe in the Early Modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46229704966354,"sku":"9780367028978","price":296.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46229704999122,"sku":"a3ad4458-de79-3580-ad1c-78c5dc5611bf","price":84.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_cc7bf320-3a5d-4e76-a418-1523418d943f.jpg?v=1763442970","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/medicine-and-religion-in-the-life-of-an-ottoman-sheikh","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}