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Herbal Medicine in Yemen: Traditional Knowledge and Practice, and Their Value for Today's World
Author(s): Ingrid Hehmeyer (Editor), Hanne Schönig
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: August 27, 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004221506
- ISBN-13: 9789004221505
Book Description
Contributors include: Mohammed Al-Duais, Jacques Fleurentin, Amin Al-Hakimi, Ingrid Hehmeyer, Gottfried Jetschke, Efraim Lev, Ulrike Lindequist, Miranda Morris, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Frédéric Pelat, Mikhail Rodionov, Petra Schmidl, Daniel Martin Varisco and Anhar Ya’ni.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
“… die Lektüre dieser interdisziplinären Beiträge ist ein Gewinn.”
Dr. Armin Schopen in
About the Author
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).