Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 EJJS 2.2 Also available online – brill.nl/ejjs DOI: 10.1163/187247109X454495 BOOK REVIEWS Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar, Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah . Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series 7 (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008), x + 664 pp., ISBN-13: 9789004161207; ISBN-10: 9004161201 Research into the Cairo Genizah and the Mastery of Ancient and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Medical Literature This book could have been an important contribution to our knowl- edge of medieval medicine in a Jewish-Islamic context, as it fits well in with a recent trend to