Research:1972-07-01/Journal article/pharmacy-in-medieval-islam-and-the-history-of-drug-addiction

Research record1 July 1972Journal article

Pharmacy in Medieval Islam and the History of Drug Addiction

Sami Hamarneh

Medical History · 1972

A history of the spread and consumption of poppy and hemp in medieval Islam and of the social, economic, political and medical consequences that contemporaries attributed to their misuse, written from contemporary Arabic sources. Opium carries the larger part of the paper and hemp is treated alongside it, so the cannabis material is a component rather than the subject. Of use to the Arabic-medicine records as the older survey that Lozano and later authors write against, and as a source on the reception of hashish in the medieval Islamic world rather than on its pharmacology.

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Published1 Jul 1972

TypeJournal article

VenueMedical History

Year1972

DOI10.1017/S0025727300017725

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1972-07-01 2026-08-11 Pharmacy in Medieval Islam and the History of Drug Addiction Journal article History Sami Hamarneh Medical History 1972 10.1017/S0025727300017725 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/pharmacy-in-medieval-islam-and-the-history-of-drug-addiction/F7B7D4562BFC3B03B874D0D972E5E772 A history of the spread and consumption of poppy and hemp in medieval Islam and of the social, economic, political and medical consequences that contemporaries attributed to their misuse, written from contemporary Arabic sources. Opium carries the larger part of the paper and hemp is treated alongside it, so the cannabis material is a component rather than the subject. Of use to the Arabic-medicine records as the older survey that Lozano and later authors write against, and as a source on the reception of hashish in the medieval Islamic world rather than on its pharmacology.