Foreword, Sheikh A. Bawazir
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration convention
List of illustrations and maps
Introduction: Hanne Schönig and Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter One: The validity of traditional medicine as an effective
tool in issues of human health, Ingrid Hehmeyer
Chapter Two: Eastern Mediterranean pharmacology and India trade as
a background for Yemeni medieval medicinal plants, Efraim Lev
Chapter Three: Magic and medicine in a thirteenth-century treatise
on the science of the stars, Petra G. Schmidl
Chapter Four: Qāt and traditional healing in Yemen, Daniel Martin
Varisco
Chapter Five: The aloe and the frankincense tree in southern
Arabia: Different approaches to their use, Miranda Morris
Chapter Six: Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite
therapeutic traditions and their application in Jerusalem today,
Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
Chapter Seven : Honey, coffee, and tea in cultural practices of
Ḥaḍramawt, Mikhail Rodionov
Chapter Eight: From medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal
drugs, Jacques Fleurentin
Chapter Nine: The miraculous plant ḥalqa (Cyphostemma digitatum):
From grandmother’s kitchen in Yemen’s south-western highlands to
modern medicinal and culinary applications, Mohammed Al-Duais and
Gottfried Jetschke
Chapter Ten: A pharmacist’s view of the potential value to modern
medicine of plants and fungi used by traditional medicine in Yemen,
Ulrike Lindequist
Chapter Eleven: Health issues in the mountains of Yemen: Healing
practices as part of farmers’ traditional knowledge, Amin
Al-Hakimi, Anhar Ya’ni, and Frédéric Pelat
About the authors
Index of plants and fungi
Index of names
Index of topics and keywords
Dr. Ingrid Hehmeyer, an Associate Professor of History of Science
and Technology at Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada), received
her Doctorate in Agriculture in 1988 and a Master of Science
(equiv.) in Pharmacy in 1990, both from the University of Bonn.
Anne Regourd, Ph.D. in Philosophy (1987), teaches at the University
of Paris 4-Sorbonne, and is Associee at the CNRS. She published on
Divinatory and Magic practices in Mediaeval Islam and contemporary
Yemen (Religious Anthropology, History of Sciences) and in Arabic
Philology.
Dr. Hanne Schönig, Ph.D. (1984) in Oriental Languages and Islamic
Studies, is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area
Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She has
published on Yemeni material culture including Schminken, Düfte und
Räucherwerk der Jemenitinnen (Ergon, 2002).
“…an important contribution to the study of traditional plant-based
medicine, broadly embedded in its fascinating cultural, religious,
and historical contexts.”
Jillian M. De Gezelle in Economic Botany XX(X) 2013.
“Bringing together almost every scholar who has worked on
traditional herbal medicine in Yemen, this book is a summation of
decades of research and will be the one comprehensive treatment of
the subject for years to come.”
Werner Daum in Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of
Arabia (BFSA) 18 (2013).
"... die Lektüre dieser interdisziplinären Beiträge ist ein
Gewinn."
Dr. Armin Schopen in Jemen-Report 45.1-2 (2014).
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