Maqāmāt

Maqāmāt

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Medicine in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition
Provenance:

Iraq, 1237

Miniature from a copy dated 1237 by Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī of al-Harīrī’s Maqāmāt (Sittings) (1054-1122)
In his shop a barber practices a bleeding with the help of a suction cup