Introduction 1 "A Beau Ideal for whosoever hopes for God" 2 From Medical Prophetics to Prophetic Medicine 3 Piety and Illness 4 Spiritual Medicine 5 The Pious Physician Coda
Biography
Ahmed Ragab is Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of the History of Science, and Director of the Science, Religion and Culture program at Harvard University, USA. He is a physician, a historian of science and medicine, and a scholar of science and religion.
"This excellent book is at once a study of a specific aspect of medieval Islamic piety and a formidable commentary on the way intellectual, literary, and religious history should be studied. […] Ragab presents us with a richly textured and deeply satisfying account of how illness, medicine, and piety were intertwined in the Islamic Middle Ages. […] It is a work that will be essential and educational reading for scholars of many fields—including but not limited to religion, the history of medicine, hadith studies, and literary studies. […] I found it to be an outstanding contribution and see it as a model of interdisciplinary and cutting-edge scholarship." – Nancy Khalek in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
