Shifting the Paradigm

The Ma‘dan al-šifā’-i Sikandar-šāhī is an extensive Persian handbook of Ayurvedic medicine made for Miyān Bhuwa ibn Ḫawāṣṣ Ḫān, a vizir of Sultan Sikandar Lōdī (r. 1489-1517) to whom the book was dedicated. This treatise was thought to provide Indian Muslim physicians, unfamiliar with Sanskrit, wit...

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Main Author: Fabrizio Speziale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2024-11-01
Series:History of Science in South Asia
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Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/108
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