The Islamic Manuscript Association, in collaboration with the University of Manchester Library and the John Rylands Research Institute, is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Peter Pormann entitled
'The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: A Survey of the Manuscript Tradition'.
Peter Pormann is Director of the John Rylands Research Institute, and Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. He is primarily concerned with the transmission of the Greek medical and scientific heritage into the Islamic world, and has published on medicine and philosophy in Late Antique Alexandria, Greek-Syriac -Arabic translation technique, the history of mental illness and hospital provisions in tenth-century Baghdad, and medieval Islamic medicine more generally.
This free public lecture will take place at 6pm on Thursday 26 June in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH.
For more information please contact: [log in to unmask] or 01223 303 177.
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