Tagged: Edinburgh University Press

June 22, 2021

The Confederate Jurist: The Legal Life of Judah P. Benjamin by William C. Gilmore

Foreword: Stephen C. Neff This is the first biography written from a legal perspective on the public life of Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884); a prominent figure in the common law world in the second...

Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World: A Collective Biography by Efraim Lev

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June 4, 2021

Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World: A Collective Biography by Efraim Lev

Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on 600 Jewish medical practitioners in the Muslim world in the 9–16th centuries. The biographies are based mainly on information...