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Insanity and its treatment in Islamic society1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2012

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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Michael W. Dols, PhD, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 45–47 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE.

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This essay was presented at a symposium entitled ‘Arabic Science and Medicine, 750–1950’, which was held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 13–14 December 1984, in co-operation with the League of Arab States. It is an abridgement of my “Majnūn”: the madman in Islamic society, which will treat more fully the various aspects of the topic. I should like to thank Lawrence Conrad for his helpful comments and suggestions.

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1 This essay was presented at a symposium entitled ‘Arabic Science and Medicine, 750–1950’, which was held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 13–14 December 1984, in co-operation with the League of Arab States. It is an abridgement of my “Majnūn”: the madman in Islamic society, which will treat more fully the various aspects of the topic. I should like to thank Lawrence Conrad for his helpful comments and suggestions.