Emilie Savage‐smith

Biographic Data

ID4876880
NAMEEmilie Savage‐smith
GIVEN NAMESEmilie
FAMILY NAMESavage‐smith
SIGNATURESMITH E S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR39
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis2024

  • Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2016

  • The Universality and Neutrality of Science

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithCHAPTER2014

  • Eloges

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis2008

  • Medieval Islamic Medicine

    Peter E Pormann, Peter Pormann et al.BOOKMedieval Islamic Medicine2007

    The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650–1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. It is the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting caliphs, kings, courtiers, courtesans, and the common crowd. In addition to being fascinating in its own right, it formed the roots from which modern Western medicine arose. Contr…

  • Avicenna (review)

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    This small volume provides a highly useful introduction to the life, ideas, and influence of Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known to Europeans as Avicenna. In addition to his hugely influential medical compendium, The Canon of Medicine (Kitab Qanun fi al-tibb), Avicenna composed an impressive number of major treatises (mostly in Arabic) on other topics: logic, metaphysics, psychology, music, astronomy, geometry, biology, and rhetoric. In twelve chapters, Go…

  • Persian Steel

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    A leading historian of Islamic metalwork and an expert on metallurgical analysis have combined to produce a volume that should be essential reading for those concerned with the history of steelmaking. Although ostensibly a catalog of Iranian steel objects collected by Parviz Tanavoli, their book [End Page 601] presents—to the extent that current research permits—a comprehensive history of steelmaking in Iran and nearby regions from the ninth cent…

  • The Book of Curiosities

    Jeremy Johns, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEImago Mundi2003Cited by: 6

    A newly discovered Arabic treatise was acquired by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in June 2002. The manuscript, compiled in the late eleventh century and copied in the early thirteenth century, contains several maps of considerable importance to the history of cartography. Of particular interest is a unique rectangular world map, incorporating a graphic scale, which may reflect a map known to have been made for the caliph al‐Ma'mūn (reg. 813–833),…

  • Globes at Greenwich

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

    The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has the world's largest collection of globes and related instruments. This beautifully illustrated and well-executed volume catalogs 272 Western terrestrial or celestial globes, 12 Islamic celestial globes, 25 Western armillary spheres, 11 Western planetaria, and 19 celestial planispheres. The latter are included in the catalog because, in Europe during the nineteenth century, the planisphere came to repl…

  • Galen's Lost Ophthalmology and the Summaria Alexandrinorum

    Open AccessEmilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2002Cited by: 1

    Journal Article GALEN's LOST OPHTHALMOLOGY AND THE SUMMARIA ALEXANDRINORUM Get access EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_77, January 2002, Pages 121–138, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2002.tb02285.x Published: 22 February 2011

  • Symposium on Medical Practice around the Year 1000

    Emilie Savage‐smith, E SAVAGE-SMITH et al.ARTICLESocial History of Medicine2001

    Journal Article Symposium on Medical Practice around the Year 1000 Get access EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH, EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar PEREGRINE HORDEN PEREGRINE HORDEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 3, December 2001, Page 387, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.3.387 Published: 01 December 2001

  • Naturwissenschaft bei den Arabern im 10. Jahrhundert n. Chr

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis2000

  • The Practice of Surgery in Islamic Lands

    Emilie Savage‐smith, E SAVAGE-SMITHARTICLESocial History of Medicine2000Cited by: 4

    This paper analyses evidence for the practice of surgery, as opposed to its theory, in the Islamic Middle East at the end of the first millennium. The inclusion in formal Arabic medical treatises of complex or invasive surgical procedures is compared with the lack of evidence for their actual performance, as well as with statements to the effect that such techniques were unknown at that time or should be avoided. Areas in which there is greater e…

  • An astrologer's map

    Evelyn Edson, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEImago Mundi2000References: 6

    A Greek map of the world, which includes a windrose, zones, places in and around Egypt, and hell, is studied in reference to its context: an anonymous astrological miscellany. Other examples of this map have been found in a second context, among anonymous scholia to Theon of Alexandria's commentary on Ptolemy's Handy Tables (Procheiroi kanones), which were also of use to astrologers. The selection of Egyptian place‐names found on the map provides…

  • Western Astrolabes

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLETechnology and Culture2000

    The astrolabe has become a symbol of medieval and Renaissance science. Yet few who see such striking instruments appreciate their function, complexity, variety, or history. Everyone who works in the field of medieval astronomical instrumentation has benefited by the generous and enthusiastic assistance of Roderick and Marjorie Webster, for many years curators of the collection at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Their catalog of western astrolab…

  • La medicina araba

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: La medicina araba: L’Arte medica nei Califfati d’Oriente e d’Occidente Emilie Savage-Smith Luciano Sterpellone and Mahmoud Salem Elsheikh. La medicina araba: L’Arte medica nei Califfati d’Oriente e d’Occidente. Milan: Ciba Edizioni, 1995. vi + 344 pp. Ill. L 70,000.00 (+ L 50,000.00 for shipping). This profusely illustrated volume issued by Ciba-Geigy is intended to introduce the general reader to the innovations and achievements of …

  • Avicenna (review)

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: Avicenna Emilie Savage-Smith Lenn E. Goodman. Avicenna. Arabic Thought and Culture. London: Routledge, 1992. xv + 240 pp. $16.95 (paperbound). No single figure looms larger in the history of Islamic medicine than that of Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known to Europeans as Avicenna. In his massive Arabic medical encyclopedia, Qanun fi al-tibb (The canon of medicine), Avicenna summarized the Greco-Roman and early Islamic medical writings availab…

  • Ibn al-Jazzar on Forgetfulness and Its Treatment

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis1997

  • Attitudes Toward Dissection in Medieval Islam

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEJournal of the History of…1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Attitudes Toward Dissection in Medieval Islam Get access EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 67–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/50.1.67 Published: 01 January 1995

  • Arabic Sciences and Philosophy

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis1991

  • From Deferent to Equant

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis1990

  • Islamicate Celestial Globes

    Donald R Hill, Emilie Savage-Smith et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

  • Gleanings from an Arabist's Workshop

    Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis1988Cited by: 1

  • Islamic Cosmology

    Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis1985

  • Vorlesungen uber die Medizin im Islam . Felix Klein-Franke

    Emilie Savage‐smithARTICLEIsis1984