Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

Abbreviations

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction

pp.：  11 – 20

The place of pharmacy and pharmacology in Arabic medicine

pp.：  14 – 14

Cairo in the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period

pp.：  15 – 20

PART ONE ANALYSIS OF MINHAJ AL-DUKKAN

pp.：  21 – 118

Chapter One Minhāj al-dukkān as a pharmaceutical text

pp.：  23 – 56

The contents and structure of Minhāj al-dukkān

pp.：  24 – 27

Sources

pp.：  28 – 54

(a) Ibn Jumay'

pp.：  29 – 34

(b) Al-Majūsī

pp.：  35 – 39

(c) Ibn Jazla

pp.：  40 – 40

(d) Ibn al-Tilmīdh

pp.：  41 – 47

(e) Ibn Abī 'l-Bayān

pp.：  48 – 54

Summary

pp.：  55 – 56

Chapter Two Paternal advice in Minhāj al-dukkān

pp.：  57 – 86

The preface; or, Why I wrote this book

pp.：  57 – 64

Professional ethics

pp.：  65 – 86

Chapter Three Practical knowledge in Minhāj al-dukkān

pp.：  87 – 118

How to handle materia medica: Substitutes, synonyms, weights and measures

pp.：  87 – 102

(a) Substitutes (chapter 20)

pp.：  88 – 90

(b) Synonyms (chapter 21)

pp.：  91 – 97

(c) Weights and measures (chapter 22)

pp.：  98 – 102

Pharmacognosy and practical advice

pp.：  103 – 118

(a) Gathering and storage of materia medica (chapter 24)

pp.：  103 – 105

(b) Identification and testing of materia medica ( chapter 25)

pp.：  106 – 110

(c) Practical advice

pp.：  111 – 118

PART TWO THE PHARMACIST AND SOCIETY

pp.：  119 – 184

Chapter Four The pharmacist and the scientific context

pp.：  121 – 154

Pharmacy against the background of contemporary science

pp.：  121 – 124

Scientific research in the Islamic world after 1258

pp.：  125 – 134

The physician and the pharmacist in Mamluk society

pp.：  135 – 144

Pharmacists in hospitals

pp.：  145 – 154

(a) The Manṣūri hospital in Cairo

pp.：  147 – 149

(b) The dār al-shifā' of the Rab'-i Rashīdī

pp.：  150 – 154

Chapter Five The pharmacist in the marketplace

pp.：  155 – 184

The pharmacist in legal works

pp.：  158 – 170

(a) Fatāwā collections

pp.：  158 – 160

(b) Moralising works

pp.：  161 – 164

(c) Hisba manuals

pp.：  165 – 170

The pharmacist in popular literature

pp.：  171 – 178

The pharmacist in chronicles

pp.：  179 – 184

Conclusion

pp.：  185 – 188

Appendix One Manuscripts of Minhāj al-dukkān

pp.：  189 – 194

(a) The manuscript tradition of Minhāj al-dukkān

pp.：  189 – 191

(b) List of the manuscripts known to me

pp.：  192 – 194

Appendix Two The recipes of Minhāj al-dukkān

pp.：  195 – 280

Appendix Three Tests for verifying materia medica

pp.：  281 – 289

Appendix Four Glossary of medico-pharmaceutical terminology

pp.：  290 – 292

Bibliography

pp.：  293 – 306

General index

pp.：  307 – 319

Index of materia medica

pp.：  320 – 328