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This is the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān ('How to manage a pharmacy'), by Abū ʾl-Munā al-Kūhīn al-ʿAṭṭār (fl. 1260) is the first attempt to explore the full spectrum of pharmacy in the medieval Arabic world: identification of the materia medica and methods of preparation; pharmacy's place within the sciences and particularly its relationship with medicine; the social position of the pharmacist and his role in the marketplace and the hospital; the economics of pharmacy; legal aspects of pharmacy; and the image of the pharmacist in literature and drama. The result is a full and nuanced picture of a section of society usually invisible.

Pharmacy --- Pharmacopoeias --- Medicine, Arab --- History, Medieval --- Medicine, Arabic --- History. --- history --- ʻAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Dāwud ibn Abī Naṣr, --- History --- ʻAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Dāwud ibn Abī Naṣr, --- Dispensatories --- Medicine --- Chemistry --- Drugs --- Materia medica --- Pharmacology --- Pharmacy - Egypt - Cairo - History --- Pharmacopoeias - Egypt - Cairo - History --- Medicine, Arab - History --- Pharmacy - history - Egypt --- History, Medieval - Egypt --- Medicine, Arabic - history - Egypt --- ʻAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Dāwud ibn Abī Naṣr, - 13th cent. - Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-aʻyān fī aʻmāl wa-tarākīb al-adwīyah al-nāfiʻah lil-abdān --- History of Pharmacy. --- History, Medieval.