TEXT

Qānūnčah

Title (arabic)

قانونچه

Title (translit)

Qānūnčah

Alias

قانونچه في الطب
قانونجه في علم الطب
المختصر في صناعة الطب
المختصر في الطب
القانونچه
al-Qānūnǧa fī al-ṭibb

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

Abridgement (epitome)

Commented in

Incipit

الحمد لله ربّ العالمين والصلوة والسلام على نبيه محمّد وآله أجمعين وبعد فهذا مختصر مشتمل على زبدة ما يجب استحضاره للطبيب من صناعة الطبّ انتخبته من كتب الأقدمين ورتبته على عشر مقالات

Explicit

وأمّا الحلواء فالعسل معيّن على الهضم والعجيني غليظ مولد السدد والله اعلم بالصواب وإليه المرجع والمآب

Notes

Jaghmīnī’s al-Qānūnča (The “Little Qānūn”), a 10-part medical abridgement of Ibn Sīnā’s medical compendium (the Qānūn or Canon), played a prominent part in a medical education. An extant copy of the Qānūnča, dated 601/1205) indicates that al-Jaghmīnī composed it prior to the Mulakhkhaṣ. From its original composition (in Arabic), Jaghmīnī’s medical primer on the practice of Greek (Unani) medicine and its various commentaries and translations (Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Punjabi) continued to be studied and reproduced extensively into the 20th century throughout Anatolia as well as Central and South Asia. Many references erroneously give 745/1344-45 for Jaghmīnī’s date; for a detailed discussion of this error, see S. Ragep, Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ, pp. 5-26.

ismi_id

310528

Literature References

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P. 54 (2.4 Medicine), 10.

Ragep, Sally. 2019. “Jaghmīnī’s Qānūnča: A Popular Abridgement of Avicenna’s Canon”. In Essays on History of Medicine Honoring the Scholarship of Jacalyn Duffin, eds. Delia Gavrus and Susan Lamb, 54-85. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press .
Ragep, Sally. 2016. Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Ragep, Sally. 2015. “Maḥmūd Ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar Al-Jaghmīnī’s Al-Mulakhkhaṣ Fī Al-hayʾa Al-basīṭa: An Edition, Translation, and Study”. McGill University.
Iskandar, A. 1967. A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

Pp. 56-57.

Al-Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd. 1868. Qānūnchah. Lucknow: n.p.

http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/3EpEq1 Loth, p. 230 (no. 791) [1217.]