Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East: Resurrection, Reinterpretation, and Reconstruction

摘要

In a 1997 edition of al-Suyütī's~1 treatise on the plague, which was composed in the fifteenth century, the actual treatise occupies only one-third of the volume; the rest of the volume comprises a number of chapters written by the editor, Muhammad 'Alī al-Bāz, that function as a parallel text engaging with al-Suyūtī's treatise on different levels. In his chapters al-Bāz re-creates the history and the significance of the treatise and presents the content and context of the edited work in an altered manner. This edition belongs to a genre of writings in which medieval texts originally written by important scholars of religion and addressing questions of "Prophetic medicine" are edited (in the sense of modified), drawn into debate, and republished.