The Arab World Institute
Paris
Exhibition
The Great Adventure of Medical Knowledge
Medical knowledge does not progress in a straight line: it moves from language to language, from city to city, from book to book. At the Institut du Monde Arabe, The Great Adventure of Medical Knowledge tells the story of this circulation from Greece and Rome to Alexandria, Baghdad, and then Padua. The journey places...
Paris
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13 October 2026 to 10 January 2027
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Medical knowledge does not progress in a straight line: it moves from language to language, from city to city, from book to book. At the Institut du Monde Arabe, The Great Adventure of Medical Knowledge tells the story of this circulation from Greece and Rome to Alexandria, Baghdad, and then Padua. The journey places...
The IMA retraces the circulation of medical knowledge from Greece to Rome, Alexandria, Baghdad, and then Padua, with the book serving as a major tool for transmission between scholarly worlds.
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On Expo Paris, The Great Adventure of Medical Knowledge is most useful when it is read not only as a single event but as part of a broader route through The Arab World Institute, where exhibitions, artists and editorial themes can be compared quickly in English. This page becomes easier to place when it is connected to the strongest editorial routes already available on the site.
For an English reader, the point of this page is also practical: it clarifies the venue, dates and booking context, then opens clear paths toward related exhibitions, artists and subjects so that the visit does not remain isolated. 3 related exhibition pages are already close enough to help compare tone, period or venue.
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Editorial angle
To understand medicine as a history of circulation, not just as a sequence of isolated discoveries. The role of the Arab-Muslim world appears here as a central link. The book provides a clear thread to a subject that could seem complex.
["An intellectual journey from Greece to Padua, via Alexandria and Baghdad.","The book presented as the main tool for medical transmission.","The major contribution of the Arab-Muslim world from the 7th to the 16th cent...
["An intellectual journey from Greece to Padua, via Alexandria and Baghdad.","The book presented as the main tool for medical transmission.","The major contribution of the Arab-Muslim world from the 7th to the 16th century.","Curation by D...
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Visit description
Medical knowledge does not progress in a straight line: it moves from language to language, from city to city, from book to book. At the Institut du Monde Arabe, The Great Adventure of Medical Knowledge tells the story of this circulation from Greece and Rome to Alexandria, Baghdad, and then Padua. The journey places.
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To understand medicine as a history of circulation, not just as a sequence of isolated discoveries. The role of the Arab-Muslim world appears here as a central link. The book provides a clear thread to a subject that could seem complex.
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On Expo Paris, The Great Adventure of Medical Knowledge is most useful when it is read not only as a single event but as part of a broader route through The Arab World Institute, where exhibitions, artists and editorial themes can be compared quickly in English. This page becomes easier to place when it is connected to the strongest editorial routes already available on the site.
How it connects
For an English reader, the point of this page is also practical: it clarifies the venue, dates and booking context, then opens clear paths toward related exhibitions, artists and subjects so that the visit does not remain isolated. 3 related exhibition pages are already close enough to help compare tone, period or venue.
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